Rude Britain
100 Rudest Names in Britain

By Rob Bailey & Ed Hurst
November 2005
Boxtree / Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0752225812
150 pages, Illustrated, 6" x 6"
$23.50 Hardcover

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Britain has a history common to many islands: it is one of repeated invasion, occupation and assimilation. Each phase of this history has left its mark on our culture, architecture, language and place names. A rich mixture of Celtic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, French and Latin has made the English language a gift to poets and writers. However, the nuances and double meanings so favored by creative writers have also caused great confusion.

In this historical, exhaustively researched work, the authors present a number of place and street names which although perfectly innocent, have the potential to be misinterpreted. This research was inspired by a story in the national press.

A young couple had moved house only 15 months after moving there to avoid young yobs who would pose outside their house, bare their buttocks and take photos - taxi drivers would not show up and takeaways would not deliver food because they thought the calls were hoaxes. And all because the name of their street was Butt Hole Road.

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