Spoken English As It Is Today
Stopped at the traffic lights on the Albert Embankment, London, a lorry driver leaned out of his cab and called to a visiting motorist nearby, “Can you tell me where I can find Betsy Pork?” Fort he next few miles, says the visitor, I wondered why a lorry driver should expect me, a total stranger, to know where he could find a lady by the delightful name of Miss; (or was it Mrs?) Pork, and it was not until I got into bed that night that I realised that he was asking me the way to Battersea Park.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 45, 30 September 1949, Page 5
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104Spoken English As It Is Today Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 45, 30 September 1949, Page 5
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