Hello, I can vaguely remeber having heard a football anthem sung by the crowd in a stadium at the beginning of a Pink Floyd song. Does anyone know the title of the song and album and the name of the...
Hello! Is it really dangerous to reload disposable batteries and what can happen? My father, who is 78 years old, finds it very fast and clever and does it on his car battery. I'm really concerned...
Hi! I'm reading "the winter king" by Bernard Cornwell, and if he explains the meaning of the word "wealhas" that later became "Welsh", he does not translante the word "Sa?s" which was originally the...
Hi! I've just finished Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe's Sword" in which one of the characters (Lord Spears) confesses having "the worst kind of pox" (syphilllis). Cornwell explains later that it was...
Hi! Can someone tell me what the origin of the word "mugshot" is ? I know what they are, but I really don't understand the word. Has it got something to do with mugs (meaning these tall cups English...
Hi! Can someone give me info about Xanadu, Gengis Khan's or Kubila? Khan's palace or court? I remember reading something about it somewhere but I can't place it. I sort of remember it was also Citizen...
Hi! Nip/Tuck Season 1 has just finished in France. Is there or will there be a Season 2. If so what happens to Christian? Is he disfigured? Has the "carver" (?) (in French it's "le d?coupeur") killed...
Back in the 80s, I remember having seen a trailer for a Ken Russell movie whose title was "Gothic", if I remember well. I did not see it when it was in the theatres (it didn't last long anyway)...
Hello! Does anyone know whether Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series has been translated into French? I've started reading the fifth episode and I 'd love shring my discovery with my husband...
Hello! Can someone tell me on which album by Caetano Veloso I can find the song "Burn it blue". I heard it in a film but the rest of the soundtrack is not as interesting anyway I'd like to listen to...
Hello! Can anyone tell me who sang the song "Someone's left the cake out in the rain...". I remember it was a song I used to hear back in the seventies (I was about 7), when I didn't understand or...
I heard a few years ago that police constables in London were no longer called "bobbies". Is it true and if so, when did this name disappear? I'm a fervent reader of Ian Rankin novels and I've read he...
Hi ! One of my twelve years old pupils asked me to write in her poetry book (I don't know if this kind of thing exists "on the other side of the Channel" it's a kind of album in which girls collect...
I've just read the questions and answers (is it what you call a thread ?) about the meaning and origin of the suffix sex in Essex, Middlesex etc. What about 'shire' as in Lancashire, Yorkshire ? And...
Hello, I'm French andI teach English in a secondary school, so I know a bit about English but I often wonder what the origins of some words are, or if similarities between words are just coincidences...
