I posted this aside in the Why Do Brits Eat Heinz Baked Beans thread back in Jan:
PS: (Hideous anachronism warning) - this has nothing whatever to do with the thread, but I just have to share this. I confess, I used a 1987 Roget’s thesaurus to clean that up. Specifically, the synonyms of Probity , which include (quoting): “…truepenny, brick, trump, true Briton, white man…”. Sheesh.
Roget’s Thesaurus, fer Chrissakes.
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