a Liverpudlian phrase: ‘don’t forget the diver’
1923—from Bernard Pykett’s plea when asking for money after his diving exhibitions—popularised from 1941 onwards by the BBC radio comedy programme It’s That Man Again
Read More1923—from Bernard Pykett’s plea when asking for money after his diving exhibitions—popularised from 1941 onwards by the BBC radio comedy programme It’s That Man Again
Read More1968—Liverpool Roman Catholic cathedral—from the large number of Roman Catholics of Irish descent in Liverpool and the resemblance of the cathedral to a tepee
Read MoreThe original sense of ‘Scouse’, denoting a person from Liverpool, is ‘a stew’. The word ‘scouse’ is in turn a shortening of ‘lobscouse’, of obscure origin.
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