Getting the pricker

e poor old English language, it really isn’t what it used to be. According to a recent survey in Britain – or “Pomgolia”, as sports journalist Phil Gifford’s Loosehead Len used to call it – it seems such wonderfully useful idiomatic phrases as “ready for the knacker’s yard” are ready for the knacker’s yard. According to the surveyors, only a third of the adult Pomgolians interviewed had ever