I got 10 out of 15 correct. I didn’t bother checking to see which questions I got wrong because I’m a US Citizen. Thank you very much. Thanks for the quiz.
Of course I could. And I’m sure countless of my British cousins have just as little interest in the subject, too. So is this, like, supposed to be a trick question, or something?
(I suppose it’s not too hard to guess that I took the test. Let’s just say I’m going to be poorer by 50 quid.)
I did not do well. Sprague is clearly Germanic and rhymes with Hague but the earliest records of my ancestors with that last name are from Whales. Hopefully I can blame it on my schooling and not some hereditary aversion to English domination.
That’s not a recipe for proper spotted dick. The photo says it all - that would be rejected, or maybe even not recognised, by any British schoolkid since time immemorial. That looks more like a roly-poly, only with currants instead of jam. To be spotted dick, it needs to be … well … spotted.
This is good to know. I thought of your surname as being pronounced “sprog”. At least it’s not “spray-ghew”. Like “ague”. Which, BTW, I think ought properly to also rhyme with “Hague”.