This week we’re chatting about the gorgeous city we call home: Edinburgh. First though, as usual, we’re covering something that people in the UK have been talking a lot about this week, namely the possible return of ‘the Beast from the East’. This leads us into a discussion of some big pop culture moments relating to weather forecasts in the UK (you’d be surprised how many there are!).

When it comes to our main theme, we’re approaching things a little bit differently this week, choosing some specific British English words and phrases that we want to teach you and putting these into example sentences which we then use to guide our discussion. The ones we’ve chosen this week are: 'tourist tat', 'hard done by', 'it's like painting the Forth Bridge' and 'swizz'.

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This week we’re talking about music in the UK; that is, not only British music, but also the popular culture surrounding music: how we talk about it here, how people in the UK find new music, things like that. You’ll find out all about early-noughties bangers, Top of the Pops, and the bizarre sex symbol who outsold the Beatles in the 1960s… We picked this topic because it fits so well with this week’s bit of pop culture news, namely the 25-year reunion of a pop group who provided a big part of the soundtrack to our childhood: S Club 7. If you remember S Club 7, we hope this news makes you feel as ancient as it makes us feel!

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This week we're talking about going to school in the UK. Join us as we discuss the joys of egg-and-spoon races, Jamie's School Dinners, and playground chants about smoking. In what we'll loosely call our 'current affairs' segment, we talk about a recent UK news story that leads us into a discussion of one of our favourite topics: puns!

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Happy listening,

Holly and Murray x

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This week's podcast is about weddings. Join us as we talk you through a typical British wedding, from receiving a 'save the date' to drunkenly singing along to the Grease Megamix at the reception. As usual, we also cover some current events that have people talking in the UK at the moment. This time it's a new judge on Britain's Got Talent, an event which gives us an excuse to tell you all about Murray's (tenuous) connection to Susan Boyle, as well as the joys of 'Chico Time', and much, much more. 

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Welcome to Series Two of Not the Queen’s English! In this, our second Brexit episode, we talk about the way different countries of the UK voted in the referendum, the role culture played in the result and the epidemic of people accidentally saying 'Brexit means Breakfast'. We also discuss the current scandal surrounding the Tory party and late tax returns.

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Welcome to Series Two of Not the Queen’s English! In this episode, we talk about Brexit. Learn out about the events leading up to the Brexit vote and discover the meaning of words like 'Remoaner', and 'Lexit'. Plus, we discuss one of the hot topics in the UK right now - Prince Harry's autobiography.

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Welcome to Not the Queen’s English! This episode deals with the tricky period between Christmas and New Year's Eve. We discuss Hogmanay, the elusive Twelve Days of Christmas and some regional New Year's Eve traditions ranging from the wholesome to the absolutely terrifying.

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Welcome to Not the Queen’s English! In this episode, we talk about Christmas in the UK. Learn about the mysterious world of panto and the cultural significance of getting a satsuma in your stocking.

We are so sorry for the mobile phone interference you can hear in this episode - one of us (mentioning no names) forgot to turn their phone off during the recording...

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Welcome to Not the Queen’s English! In this episode, we talk about drinking culture in the UK. Learn the difference between 'going out' and 'going out out' and find out why you should never go into a pub that doesn't have windows.

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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Welcome to Not the Queen’s English! In this episode, we talk about linguistic pedantry - that is, the obsession some people have with being correct, rather than allowing for what sounds natural. We cover the linguistic minefield of asking to go to the toilet at primary school, the surprising problem of paninis, and our own guilty irritation at incorrect 'Shakespearean' English.

For all the things we mention but don’t fully explain, check out the Cheat Sheet for this episode, which you can download from our Patreon page. Patreon supporters also get access to our 35-page PDF accent guide. Cultural guides, including the accent guide, are also available to buy individually from our Ko-fi shop.

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