English ?

I found this clipping looking for a place to stash a book of matches - it was in a music box:




Not sure of the source, probably just filler from a book catalog ? (the back is a blurb for a book called: Lost Gardens of England).  Now that I think about it, there is a bookseller, Bas Bleu (blue-stocking) that used to send this kind of newsprint type catalog:

https://www.basbleu.com

But I can't really check, the site won't let me in :(  must be the VPN or ??

Answering my own question about the clipping, it was apparently from this book:



https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737216/brit-think-ameri-think-by-jane-walmsley/

Here's an updated page of the terms:



Maybe the newsprint clipping was an earlier version of the book ?  Anyway I thought it was funny.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm



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