>Dragan
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>Here's a BBC web site on the "routes (pun on roots) of English" that you might be interested in/in which you might be interested. I've got one of the books and an accompanying CD from the radio programme.
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/index.shtml

Thanks - duly bookmarked and left for later, when these ships stop flying around.

There's a naval base nearby, so I figure these flying things must be ships. What else would they be? Dirigibles don't make so much noise.

BTW, word "posh" comes from Romani. Just found that out yesterday.