Summary
As infuriatingly gripping as Tony Blair's memoirs may be, one aspect is beyond the pale: his weird Americanisms. He refers to Euan's drunken night out as 'sorry-ass behaviour'. He refers to being 'dissed'. He also mentions the 'warp and woof' of things. Shouldn't that be 'warp and weft'? But these linguistic tics just prove Blair is not, and perhaps never was, on the same planet as the rest of us.
W. Thorpe, Farnham (Email) Mr Blair describes in his memoirs how, at the end of the day, he would have a whisky, then wine with dinner, saying he knew the hazards of using alcohol as a prop. But the quantities he describes are not huge compared to some former PMs. Churchill, whose consumption was prodigious, would have regarded Blair's grog intake as pitiful by comparison.See the full content of this document
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Blair's Book of Linguistic Tics ; Letters
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