Social class in the United Kingdom assemblers and routine operatives, care workers, elementary storage occupations, customer service occupations, and musicians. The precariat, about 15% of British society, shows poor economic capital, and the lowest scores on every other criterion. Typical occupations include cleaners, van drivers, care workers, carpenters and joiners, caretakers, leisure and travel service occupations, shopkeepers and proprietors, and retail cashiers. The term "underclass" is used to refer to those people who are "chronically unemployed", and in many instances have been for generations. Typical characteristics are: There is a contention that there are homologies between the meaning context and tenor of the abusive popular word
Portmanteau gerrymander has itself contributed to portmanteau terms bjelkemander and playmander. Oxbridge is a common portmanteau for the UK's two oldest universities, those of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2016, "Britain"s planned "exit" from the European Union became known as ""Brexit"." Many portmanteau words receive some use but do not appear in all dictionaries. For example, a "spork" is an eating utensil that is a combination of a spoon and a fork, and a "skort" is an item of clothing that is part skirt, part shorts. On the other hand, "turducken", a dish made by inserting a chicken into a duck, and