Re: UK slang help pls - a child's "guy"

On 30 Aug 2008, Django Cat wrote

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I was reading a very annoying book about 'cultural competence'
earlier this week which stated you could read something into the
British character by the fact we made Guy Fawkes into a Folk
Hero. "Nah", I cried, slinging the weighty tome from the
nearest casement, "you don't burn effigies of Folk Heroes; folk
villain, innit?"

At least it's not usually the Pope we burn, except in Lewis.

Isn't that one spelled Lewes?

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Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed


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