i dont know how or where i heard this but i thought it was really cool: its better to burn out than fade away or something along those lines anyway can someone tell me who said it thankies!
If someone was sitting with you at the dinner table and blurted out, "I'm stuffed," would you immediately know he was talking about a full stomach? Or would a sexual connotation...
A chicken on it's own would a chicken,however, more than one would be chickens. so why is a single sheep a sheep and more than one still sheep? i know this is random,but it's just made me think why!
When is a strait 'straits' ? We have the 'Straits of Gibraltar' and the 'Menai Straits' (sometimes inaccurately termed the Menai Strait) but we have 'Cook Strait' yet neither the strait nor the...
ok after having about a infuriating row with my girlfriend about the word chav, look it all came about as in the word chavie meaning child and chav meaning male person, Or town dweller, see wikapedia....
Hiya can someone please explain to me what 'Self - subsistence' means! Please Also I don't like to be known as a cheeky pain the butt, but in this case I am going to make an exception for myself (lol)...
I cannot remember the rule but hope that someone else will. When should we use the word "fewer" instead of "less" It feels wrong to say e.g. less people, less books, less parking spaces. I tend to...
Are these genuine? 1.In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb' 2.Many years ago in...