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Re: major tom
Why is it regarded as highly offensive to refer to someone as a four-letter word from Scunthorpe, yet more or less acceptable to call him/her a berk ?
Berk is taken from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Berkeley or Berkhamsted Hunt, which, yes you've guessed correctly, rhymes with ****.
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