If you enjoy playing with stereotypes, you’ll like Robyn Christi’s Eighteen signs that you might possibly be English.
Notes from the U.K.
Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
If you enjoy playing with stereotypes, you’ll like Robyn Christi’s Eighteen signs that you might possibly be English.
Notes from the U.K. 
I don’t think I am English…apart from the thing about being confused when people can’t tell if I am English or American (or Australian) that does confuse me…
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I’m starting to see a disturbing pattern here.
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it is a problem isn’t it!!
either I am a displaced American who doesn’t know it and has a surprisingly British accent…
or I am just odd
:-)
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Whichever it is, enjoy it.
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:-D
to be honest, I am probably just odd
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Not a problem around here.
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:-D
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Turns out I’m not British. Which is a surprise.
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That must come as a shock.
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I liked the last one, about not knowing the national anthem. That makes me definitely not British, because I know two verses of “god save the Queen” by heart.
I remember an old test in America to catch spies (probably a joke). Ask them if they know the second verse of the American national anthem. If they did they were a spy for sure, because real Americans don’t know it.
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There’s a second verse??
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To the British anthem or the American one?
The US Anthem has four verses. I don’t know how many the British one has, but I’ll type the second one here without looking it up (I promise). Any mistakes are evidence that I’m not copying and pasting:
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign.
May she defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen.
I did a choir tour in college, and we spent quite a while in Britain, and our director insisted that we open each concert with two verses of the national anthem. We memorized it on a bus crossing the Jura mountains earlier in the tour.
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The American one.
I’m duly impressed that you can grab this one out of the air. Funny what the mind retains, isn’t it?
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