Friday, November 07, 2014

THEY TALK FUNNY THERE

Regular readers know that in some ways I have been influenced by British standards -- spelling peculiarities, for instance; specifically those eccentric usages that the English borrowed from Norman French -- even though I am as American as Apple Pie.Which we Dutch Americans invented.
Along with Hamburgers, Horseradish, and Pickled Beets.
And Cookies.

Cookies!

Consequently the video clip below is unsettling.


A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE


[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLHguPnK0E.]


I'm with Cookie Monster on this one. Even though John Olliver is such a likable woozzums. It isn't a biscuit. Biscuits by definition mean items that have been twice done, id est foreign comestibles such as rusks, beschuit, and biscotti.
Biscuit also has unfortunate connotations.
Of a totally depraved nature.


They ought to pass a law forcing Brits to speak English.


It would make John Olliver intelligible.


Especially in the South.




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