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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Butter me no parsnips

SYLLIE | 17:21 Sun 08th Jan 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Anyone know where this comes from

GOOGLE has failed again!

Sunday Express �1,000 Crossword

RT no. 2

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Spelling Bee

It's an old English proverb....

'Fine words butter no parsnips'

BriWrite

Found on GOOGLE in 30 seconds.

The full expression is fine words butter no parsnips (or sometimes soft words ... or fair words ...), meaning that words alone are useless, especially flattering phrases or fine promises, and you should judge people by what they do rather than by what they say.
Apart from that, there�s not a lot more that one can say apart from �origin unknown�. It�s a proverb, which is at least 400 years old: the first example given in the big Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1639: �Faire words butter noe parsnips�.
The link between butter and flattery is easy to understand. We have had the verb to butter up, to flatter someone lavishly, in the language at least since the early eighteenth century. It and the proverb share the image of fine words being liberally applied to smooth their subject and oil the process of persuasion.

Dustybun

Google doesn't fail - but Googlers often do! If at first you don't succeed try rephrasing your "question". The information is there - sometimes you just have to try a little harder to find it.

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