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Table of Contents

Getting About - includes driving terminology and a whole bunch of left-hand-side-of-the-road jokes.

Food - British dishes to watch out for, and those you may have to beat off with a stout stick.

Pubs & Drinking - Getting right properly pissed.

Money & Shopping - How not to lose all your cash and come home looking like a drag queen.

People & Body Parts - That sounds kind of disgusting, but you know what I mean.

General & Miscellaneous - Everything from British Telephone to saying "thank you." Plus, as an added bonus, a short list of some basic British explicatives to get you started on the road to wherever it is you think you are going.

Special Section: Avoiding Total Confusion and Possible Aggravated Assault - A brief recap of all of the terms that mean something in both British and American, but whose meanings bear absolutely no resemblance to each other whatsoever. For instance, did you know that a common American child's word for rear end is, In British, a rather nasty nickname for a woman's genitals? This, you see, is where the aggravated assault part comes in.