We are privileged. We have been taught to use the world's finest language as a matter of routine. What's more we have a deep understanding of it. Or do we? Almost certainly you have not been told of the intricate social dynamics that have gone into so many of the words and phrases we use today. The [...]
Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of Lon[...]