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Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no oneseems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. Inexploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled afascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that havebecome the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used -sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out ourcommon ground, to define what makes us essentially English, andthus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off ourshores.