Ummm... I'm assuming you gent's are a little younger than me here - My English teacher, basically a Very Inspiring Communicator, and sounding like a dead spit for the guy above, emigrated to the States a few years ago .........
Seriously.
I wonder .....
And he actually introduced us to some great American Literature - no, the "powers that be" weren't over-impressed, wasn't anywhere on the syllabus then.
We cared not a bit.... there we were, hunched round our espresso cups, clutching our Scott-Fitzgerald, our Burroughs, and the wondrous Jack Kerouac.