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This updated and revised edition of \u003ci\u003eWatching the English \u003c\/i\u003e- which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of \"squaddies,\" bikers, horse-riders, and more. \u003cbr\u003eFox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. 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