Offending the Nelson Breed.

I just read a heart-warming story about a British woman who went overboard from a cruise ship sixty miles off the coast of Croatia and was subsequently rescued, alive and well, ten hours later. In relating her adventure to journalists she said she ‘fell off the back.’

Fell off the back? Ships do not have backs, madam. You fell off the stern.

These things matter to us Brits, you know. They do. Whatever happened to the days when the British were born with sea water for blood? It’s hardly surprising she went overboard if she doesn’t know a back from a stern.