Word: wot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alone. "At least 20% of my students have some real ambition for a profession," says a London primary school headmistress. "Before the war, hardly a single one would have presumed to think so far above his station." Says a London milkman: "If I'd 'ad chances wot my son 'as, I wouldn't be just a milkman, not bleedin' likely...
Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...
...greatest military operation in the 'aowl' bloomin' 'istory of military warfare-an' 'e's got official films and records, pots of money, 'e's got a cast 'e couldn't squeeze into Trafalgar Square, an' wot else...
...grownups: "Grown ups are wot is left when skool is finished...
...school in general: "Skool according to headmaster's pi-jaw is like Life chiz if that is the case wot is the use of going...