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6.8 English From BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, where we bring you an interesting topic and six items of vocabulary.
I'm Neil and joining me is Rob.
Hello there, and today we've got six minutes to talk about honesty and how honest people are,
particularly when it comes to spending money.
So Neil, what's an honesty box?
Well, it's where you pay for something by putting money in a box,
but it's up to you to put in the right amount.
A small business might use this method to take money for things like parking your car or buying a newspaper because it means you don't need a sales assistant.
But that means people could take a newspaper or park their car without paying anything.
An honesty box relies on people being honest.
The adjective honest means truthful and not trying to cheat people,
and the noun is honesty, the quality of being truthful.
Have you ever cheated an honesty box, Rob?
Absolutely not.
I never have.
Honestly.
And to cheat, by the way, means to trick or deceive someone to get something you want.
Honesty is the best policy, as they say.