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However British you may be, I am more British still.
Yorkshire word and means spoiled and
I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence.
I am Scottish. I am also British.
ENGLISH: the ultimate body language. If not spoken by the English.
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.
I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.
I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
I'm of Arab background.
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.
Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
Said, and we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. In
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.
Why should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots.
English is a bitch
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America
Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Dude, are you like English or something--?
Yeah, That's right, dude. I'm like English.
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.
My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.
I grew up listening to English music.
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
I'm from Southampton.
When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
I'm English. And I don't have tan skin or blond hair or green eyes.
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.
I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.
You can learn English online
If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
Reuben was the child of Polish-speaking parents.' The Director interrupted himself. 'You know what Polish is, I suppose?' 'A dead language.
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
I cannot speak your england.
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
I'm very American.
English you're speaking," Matheus said. "The language that sidles up to other languages in dark alleys, mugs them, then rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. It's the bitch-whore of languages and it owns the world. Suck on that, Rome boy.
I don't have a good British accent.
I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
I am not anti-English, and I never was.
To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.
Look, in Britspeak, I 'fancy' her.
-sounds like the /ee/ sound in the English
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way.
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
Verbing weirds language.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality.
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.