Monthly Archives: December 2022
Spot the difference
Radio 4 Drama: Fare – Why is it that the BBC, with all its money and employees with first-class educations, conflate a cab with private hire? Take the aforementioned afternoon drama. When it plays on BBC Sounds an image appears of a London cab’s hire light even though the excellent drama by first-time writer Tony Schumacher is about a private hire driver in the North-East.
Johnson’s London Dictionary: Hamleys
HAMLEYS (n.) Costermonger that doth purvey to excited children elecktronic goods to the dismay of their parents.
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London in Quotations: William Dunbar
London, thou art of townes A per se. / Soveraign of cities, seemliest in sight, / Of high renoun, riches and royaltie; / Of lordis, barons, and many a goodly knyght; / Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; / Of famous prelatis, in habitis clericall; / Of merchauntis full of substaunce and of myght: / London, thou art the flour of Cities all.
William Dunbar (c.1456-c.1513)
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