ENGLISH PRESERVE
...keeping the English language... ENGLISH
Here are just some 'English' words that seem to have been usurped in recent years;
BISCUIT has become Cookie
FILM has become Movie
RUBBISH has become Trash or Garbbage
FLAT has become Apartment
CAR BOOT has become Trunk
POST MORTEM is becoming Autopsy
GB HOLIDAY is becoming a 'Staycation'
ROYAL OAK DAY
Royal Oak Day was a formal public holiday celebrated in England on 29 May to commemorate the restoration of the English monarchy in May 1660. In some parts of England the day is still celebrated.
"Parliament had ordered the 29 of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny [republican Oliver Cromwell] and the King's return to his Government, he returning to London that day."
Royal Oak Day was a formal public holiday celebrated in England on 29 May to commemorate the restoration of the English monarchy in May 1660. In some parts of England the day is still celebrated.
"Parliament had ordered the 29 of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny [republican Oliver Cromwell] and the King's return to his Government, he returning to London that day."