SubscribeMess of a language: It's London's fault.
April 10, 2007 at 11:23 a.m.
My friend Nik (better known as the Funky Mother on DalianXpat.com) posted a fascinating story on the expat forum that got me thinking. It seems the historically recent butchery of English, as it's spoken by those who still have a queen, is the fault of those living at the very heart of that once-upon-a-time empire.
Who put the R in bath? Surely this is a trick question, you may think, there is no R in bath. But if you search hard enough in certain parts of Britain the rogue consonant is there - squatting erroneously between the A and ...
