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What Brits Say v What They Mean, now with author credit

May 20, 2021

     By Duncan Green     

Got a very exciting email yesterday (yes, it does happen). One of the most-read posts on this blog over the years has been the table ‘What Brits say v What they mean’, which I first published in 2011. A colleague had pinged it over, and I was frustratingly unable to locate the original source. I decided to publish anyway because it’s just so good – see for yourself.

What Brits say vs what they mean

But now the elusive author has got in touch and asked to be credited. Only too happy to do so. Nannette Ripmeester (@N_Ripmeester) created it for a training in the late 1990s for her organization, Expertise in Labour Mobility. As proof, here’s her 2011 paper (in the ‘Pediatric Pulmonology’ journal of all places…) and a more recent LinkedIn post. We are forever in your debt Nannette. Here’s the version from her LinkedIn post, which has a few different entries – I guess it must be a living document.

Understanding the Brits

Now, how about a post-Brexit edition? ‘Europe’; ‘the Continent’ or maybe a politician-speak version – ‘Our European Friends’. I’ll happily repost, with credit this time, promise…..

May 20, 2021
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