WRONG “Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Boswell and Johnson were discussing whether or not Boswell’s affection for London would wear thin should he choose to live there, as opposed to his occasional visits from Scotland. This discussion happened on 20th September 1777.

CORRECT “Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Boswell and Johnson were discussing whether or not Boswell’s affection for London would wear thin should he choose to live there, as opposed to his occasional visits from Scotland. This discussion happened on 20th September 1777.

WRONG “Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Boswell and Johnson were discussing whether or not Boswell’s affection for London would wear thin should he choose to live there, as opposed to his occasional visits from Scotland. This discussion happened on 20th September 1777.

WRONG “Goodness me, but isn’t London big? It seems to start about twenty minutes after you leave Dover and just goes on and on, mile after mile of endless grey suburbs…”. Bill Bryson – Notes from a Small Island.

CORRECT “Goodness me, but isn’t London big? It seems to start about twenty minutes after you leave Dover and just goes on and on, mile after mile of endless grey suburbs…”. Bill Bryson – Notes from a Small Island.

WRONG “Goodness me, but isn’t London big? It seems to start about twenty minutes after you leave Dover and just goes on and on, mile after mile of endless grey suburbs…”. Bill Bryson – Notes from a Small Island.

CORRECT “When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” Bette Midler, American comic.

WRONG “When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” Bette Midler, American comic.

WRONG “When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” Bette Midler, American comic.

CORRECT “Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” Oscar Wilde – First Act, An Ideal Husband.

WRONG “Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” Oscar Wilde – First Act, An Ideal Husband.

WRONG “Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” Oscar Wilde – First Act, An Ideal Husband.

CORRECT Cabs were once described in Parliament by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as “Hansom cabs are the gondolas of London”.

WRONG Cabs were once described in Parliament by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as “Hansom cabs are the gondolas of London”.

WRONG Cabs were once described in Parliament by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as “Hansom cabs are the gondolas of London”.

WRONG “I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I walked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach; and although the very house-fronts, looking on the swollen gutters, were like old friends to me, I could not but admit that they were very dingy friends.” Charles Dickens – David Copperfield, Chapter 59, Return.

CORRECT “I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I walked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach; and although the very house-fronts, looking on the swollen gutters, were like old friends to me, I could not but admit that they were very dingy friends.” Charles Dickens – David Copperfield, Chapter 59, Return.

WRONG “I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I walked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach; and although the very house-fronts, looking on the swollen gutters, were like old friends to me, I could not but admit that they were very dingy friends.” Charles Dickens – David Copperfield, Chapter 59, Return.

WRONG “In this city, 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.” – Ken Livingstone, London Mayor.

WRONG “In this city, 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.” – Ken Livingstone, London Mayor.

CORRECT “In this city, 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.” – Ken Livingstone, London Mayor.

WRONG “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner.” Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room.

WRONG “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner.” Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room.

CORRECT “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner.” Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room.

CORRECT “I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” Groucho Marks.

WRONG “I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” Groucho Marks.

WRONG “I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” Groucho Marks.

WRONG “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.” Ben Aaronovitch – Moon Over Soho.

CORRECT “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.” Ben Aaronovitch – Moon Over Soho.

WRONG “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.” Ben Aaronovitch – Moon Over Soho.