On: What’s the Difference Between American English and...

[bch]

> Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not…

This is going in a direction I wasn’t anticipating - I thought “bum a fag” would realistically mean “ask for a cigarette”.

[Lio → bch]

That would be a good assumption in general to be fair. Those going to that kind of public school would be a tiny percentage of the population.

Roald Dahl wrote extensively about "fagging" and all that went with it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoir...