While in the UK recently I took advantage of an extremely rare opportunity to tour the long-closed Battersea Power Station. It’s an iconic part of the London landscape, known to many for appearing on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.

The tour was basically a community open house, to try and drum up support/input for the redevelopment plans. Visitors were asked to complete a survey…

…and this question caught my eye:

I really got a kick out of the localized UK English choices for the responses.

Also: see my pictures from the Battersea Power Station here and more of my London and Sheffield pictures here.

Previous posts on surveys:

• If you rent from Budget, do you get what you pay for?
• Survey Revenge?
• Son of survey
• Bad Survey Design. Please Stop!

Tags: battersea power station, language, london, norms, slang, survey, terms, UK

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