How to be a Brit

used
double names (‘Garden Terrace’, ‘Church Street’, ‘Park Road’, etc) the number
of street names reaches or exceeds a hundred. It has been suggested by one
correspondent that this dearly proves what wonderful imagination the English
have. I believe it proves the contrary. A West End street in London is not
called ‘Haymarket’ because the playful fancy of Londoners populates the
district with romantically clad medieval food dealers, but simply because they
have not noticed as yet that the hay trade has considerably declined between
Piccadilly and Pall Mall in the last three hundred years.

4 This is a euphemism for bloody
— a word you should never use.

5 Shakespeare and Myself, George Mikes. Drawings by David Langdon. André Deutsch, 8s. 6d. Order your copy now.

6 How to be an Alien, by George Mikes. Nicolas
Bentley drew the pictures. André Deutsch, 7s. 6d. Available at all better-class
bookshops. Order two copies now.

7 As you
can tell the way I said above ‘we haven’t done too badly’ instead of ‘we have
been hugely successful’.