2.5/5 for
I never knew that about the English. There was a lot of interesting information, but the whole book read like a UKIP proganda piece. I
should have been tipped off by the absurd statement in the very first paragraph:
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A Yorkshireman is instantly recognisable from a Cornishman, a Geordie from a Man of Kent, by accent, by outlook, by appearance.
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It went downhill from there sadly. Legends presented as fact, at least implicitly by the omission of standard disclaimers like "the story goes", "according to the legend", etc. Also, the constant use of "we", "us" and "our" made it sound like the author was writing much more FOR the English than ABOUT them. And the example given above, which I found amusing, was by no means the only such evidence of sloppy proofreading