Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Quotation

"Nearly ever englishman of working-class origins considers it effeminate to prounouce a single foreign word correctly. During the War of 1914-18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired."

- George Orwell "England your England" in Inside the Whale and other Essays

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