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Why do British people say bum instead of butt?

Bum is a delightfully silly word and just means your bottom. As a child it made me giggle for some unknown reason, perhaps I thought that anything to do with your rear end was rude.My elder sister and I, probably 10 and 8, taught my 2 year old sister to swear. They were pretty tame by today's standards but she learnt bum hole , bugger it, bloody hell and shit. Of course we ended up in trouble with our parents but it was worth it. When she shouted from the loo " wipe my bum hole mum" we fell around laughing, when she didn't get attention quickly enough she would say with a great big put upon sigh " oh bugger it".Things not to teach your younger sibling.Butt just does not have that deliciously naughty ring to it.

Why do the British people have a weird accent?

The question doesn't make sense, Britain has a different accent for each county and some urban areas like London have multiple accents within the same city.Not to mention the British Isles don’t even have one native language, albeit many of them are rarely spoken and the native populations of some of the languages are near extinction like Cornish and Manx, but you do still get quite a lot of people who speak Welsh especially in North Wales as an English man it can feel like a foreign country even though they are part of the UK, there is also Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic (Although technically Ireland isn't British but is part of the British isles and I've heard Scots and Irish Gaelic are almost the same language).Also i’m assuming from this question you are probably referring to people with an RP accent i.e. the Queens English, spoken by various well to do people, those who went to private school and by many on the BBC. Most people don’t actually have this accent even though it seems that on US TV shows they try and copy this accent its a good indicator to many of us Brits that the actor isn’t actually British because very few people sound like that.Ironically to add to the question of “the British accent” people from the BBC only employed presenters with that specific posh sounding accent due to the fact that the UK has such a diverse number and sounding accents that they thought the UK population wouldn't be able to easily understand everything from the other accents.Just to add though I've heard some foreign native English speakers say we pronounce English words wrong, that doesn't really make much sense either since English comes from Britain where England resides, so if anything why do foreign native English speakers have weird accents?

Why do British people swear so much?

’Cause it's fun! It emphasises a point. It can make you feel a bit naughty. And it can help you to endure life's crap… And that's scientifically proven!It doesn't indicate a lack of intelligence or vocabulary. My sister got a first class hons degree and Doctorate from Oxford University, and is now a Company Director for a well known international company. Very well educated… But she slips a ‘fuck’ into the conversation with surprising regularity! She's not one of those toff types, she's just a Northern lass who's developed a posh accent so that foreign colleagues can understand her.Funniest of all is when posh people swear. My mother in law, age 70 hippy but with a posh accent, told a row of students to ‘shut the fuck up’ when they were chatting during a Shakespeare play. They were so surprised, that they did! But only cos it came from the mouth of an old lady, which is a little more unexpected.English people have a great sense of humour that can be very subtle to people of other countries. I think Reginald D Hunter said you can talk with a British person, walk away, and realise 10 mins later they were actually taking the piss out of you… piss taking (taking the mickey) is constant here in Britain, but swearing adds another layer to the hilarity which is more instant and obvious. It's better to say ‘i’m fucking piss wet through’ when it’s rained again, than ‘i’m soaked’… Where's the fun in that? The alternative is to understate and say ‘I’m a bit wet’. Depends how much feeling you want to put into it and who your audience is.If a British person isn't taking the piss out of you, then you either don't know each other well, they don't like you, or something very bad has just happened. I call my husband a knobhead all the time, but it's affectionate. If I had fallen out with him, I'd probably use his actual name.Swearing is great for breaking tension and making everyone laugh too. Nowt wrong with naming amusing body parts or functions to brighten the day. What's weird is that there's no taboo anywhere on words like Hate, Terror or War. Though I would never say I Hate You to my husband, even in the heat of an argument, I would call him a massive wanker. It might even raise a chuckle and start off the making up proceedings.

Why do some British people say that Britain stood alone for two years during WW2? Exactly one year passed between the French surrender and the German invasion of the USSR.

Actually it was one year exactly, from 22nd June 1940, when France surrendered, to 22nd June 1941, when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.We weren't really ‘alone’ in a literal sense. We had the Commonwealth and Empire with us, although India and South Africa were perhaps less enthusiastic that the rest.Many airmen - particularly Polish - from the occupied nations of Europe fought with ferocity and exemplary courage during the Battle of Britain, conscious no doubt that the liberation of their homelands depended on the defeat of the Nazis.The USA was selling us - and later, when we had run out of money ‘lending’ us - weapons and ammunition: they even ‘gave’ us 50 obsolete World War One destroyers in return for bases in the Caribbean.(The Soviets on the other hand were supplying Nazi Germany with all sorts of material aid right up to the day before they were attacked after which, ironically, they demanded the opening of a ‘second front’ in Western Europe; a front they could have opened in May 1940 when Germany invaded the Low Countries and France).But we were ‘alone’ in another sense, because the British Isles - apart from the Irish Free State - bore the onslaught of the daylight and night-time air attacks mounted by the Luftwaffe which were not inflicted during that year on the USA, the USSR or the nations of the Commonwealth.And it was as well we did ‘stand alone’ because if these Islands had been successfully invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, there would have been no springboard for ‘Operation Overlord’ and the liberation of Western Europe.It is fair to say that had we not ‘stood alone’ Europe would now be under the control of either Nazi Germany of Communist Russia.