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In the Times: Britons excel at holiday complaints
A survey conducted by the travel company Isango.com this summer found that 19 per cent of [British] people “dislike going away because foreigners don't want to speak English”.However, when an angry British traveller told a waiter in Méribel in France that he should treat his customers as kings – “le client est roi” – the waiter replied calmly, in perfect English: “But don't you know what we did to our kings?”
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