I am reminded of the experience of an acquaintance of mine, a not-unsophisticated Canadian woman of a certain age who spoke clear, unaccented Canuck
and who had married an English ex-pat.
When on a return trip to the UK, she frequently noted that hubby could be drawn into a huff by "the bullying verbal antics of that public school boy", over mere trifles of accent. Yet she was never made a target, that she could tell.
It does seem a particularly English thing to have private jokes about language.
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Originally Posted by Brian Rosebury via davem
The Uruk-hai, Grishnakh’s rivals, are an arrogant warrior horde, not without a certain esprit de corps, and are given to yelling war cries. (‘Bring out your King! We are the fighting Uruk-hai! We will fetch him from his hole, if he does not come. Bring out your skulking king!’)
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I know it is historically incorrect, but whenever I read these orc lines I am always reminded of
Monty Python's The Holy Grail and the "Bring out your dead lines."
Now, about those beavers in the Narnia movie ....