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At the moment the United Kingdom is celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, that is 60 years of her reign.  Celebrations have started at the beginning of this year but they have reached their peak the last 2nd June and will close on the 5th June.

The programme is very rich and, as usual, no expense was spared in organising sumptuous events. Yesterday it took place the diamond jubilee river pageant, with the Royal Family dressed in it’s Sunday best. A million spectators coming from all Britain converged on the Thames to watch the show.

The British fondness for the Queen is at its top-level. The diamond jubilee has also increased the business on the Royal Family with all kind of souvenirs prepared for this occasion.

Certainly, British culture also includes the long tradition of the monarchy and all the aspects related to it, with great importance given to ceremonial occasions.

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
-Peter Ustinov-

“Americans are a lot more open, of course. There’s something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It’s a stereotype but it’s true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.”                                       -Emily Blunt-

“Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape?”
-Marylin French-

“All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.”              -David Cronenberg-

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

Which witch whished which wiched wish?

Betty Botter had some butter, “But”, she said, “this butter’s bitter”. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my butter bitter. But a bit of better butter that would make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So ’twas better Betty Botter, bought a bit of better butter.

Swan swam over the sea, swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again well swum swan!

I thought a thought but the thought I thought wasn’t the though I thought I thought.

Are you able to pronounce quickly and corretly those tongue twisters??

The British are the major consumers of tea in the world, but this beverage appeared in England only in the mid 17th century. The first tea’s importers from Asia were the Portuguese and the Dutch in 1610.
Tea became very popular thanks to coffee houses and it is still the Britons’ favourite drink. A lot of people drink even six or more cups of tea a day!
Black tea with milk is the typical British way to serve tea. But, even though tea drinking is worldwide considered as a refined cultural element, the British consume it in mugs and so often that most offices allow their employers breaks for tea.