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Old 06-06-2005, 04:04 PM
Jaques d'Alltrades
 
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Ye gads....from the many comments on this 'string', fun that they be, it
sounds as tho parts of the UK society are just as stuffy as
ever....pretty
soon I expect someone to be talking about "pater" and the likes....H


That's most frightfully non-U. We refer to him as the Gov'nor, what?


Tsk. 'Sir', surely!


Ah, we call him "Sir" to his face when we speak to him, don't y'know. We
*REFER* to him as "the gov'nor".

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