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[...] no other. But why is Monty Python still seen as so quintessentially English? The first series was broadcast when I was almost [...]

[...] the Round Table, searching for the Holy Grail with nobility and purity (famously parodied by Monty Python in their first film). And we also have our own version of the alligators in the sewers: the [...]

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[...] all, they can run faster than you, no? The post Halloween in Britain appeared first on Sila English Magazine. [...]

[...] about the whole celebration… The post Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot appeared first on Sila English Magazine. [...]

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[...] Si quieres leer este artículo en español, pincha aquí. Every time we face a speaking test, we panic. Some people are very good at communicating orally, but others are not and can be [...]

[...] he agreed to be more lenient on one condition: she must ride naked through the city streets. So Lady Godiva did just that. However, being a bit of a spoilsport, she first issued orders that the entire [...]

[...] They say the English are an eccentric people and maybe the proof is in the English language; because if there was ever an “unconventional and slightly strange” language, surely it’s [...]

[...] is so well-loved. In fact, the word “Pythonesque” has even found its way into the English language, to describe humour that is absurd or surreal in the style of Monty Python – If you [...]

[...] statement and every advertising poster. The story has even found its way into the English language as rhyming slang for money: a “godiva” means a fiver, or five pound note. True or not, [...]

[...] us! Since then, the phrase, “things that go bump in the night” has become part of the English language. It represents all the nameless fears we imagine when the lights go out… Welcome to [...]

[...] ) was inside, and then replace him with a Catholic monarch instead. Among the conspirators was Guy Fawkes and because he had military experience, he was in charge of the explosives. The conspiracy was [...]

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I’m not going to try and tell you that writing is easy… in any language… It isn’t. Writing in our native tongue can be difficult enough so I k [...]

Si quieres leer este artículo en español, pincha aquí. Every time we face a speaking test, we panic. Some people are very good at communicating or [...]