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'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...
>Is there an equivalent of the English 'master', i.e. in the vein of 'mademosielle'. >What does BCBG (as in pretentious) stand for? >Are there other terms for hair colour apart from...
The tee-vee ad has the waitress come in and say, "saucisses et haricots...." - Just before Joanna Lumley says oh dont be so lah-did-ah. But she doesnt say ..... ay tarricoh - with an elision as we...
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...
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)...
Years and years ago I watched a film and it was one of those late night thriller sorts that are on at like 1 in the morning and have no-one famous in it but it was really good. A woman bought a studio...
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...
Does anyone know any of the people who have had the honour of having their names immortalized in the dictionary with the loss of the capital letter eg. Mr. Derrick - derrick (crane)
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...
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...
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...
