Ah, you've got a bit mixed up there. Yes, stick to the Queen's English. But I didn't mean to suggest that the Queen's English was set in stone. Of...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pioneering and brilliant. You need to think of it in the context of a time where there haven't been any of the horror...
Vindaloo portuguese? I'd never have guessed that in a million years. my favourite food as well! :) Hmm... well next time I go for an indian I'll...
Ok, first of all, Windows 95 was bollocks. 98 was worse. XP is an improvement on both. Secondly the English Language is evolving all the time...
Also arse was a tudor polite term for backside. Ass means donkey. Get it right, Joe Yank!
could well be. Sheep could come from gaelic perhaps, no idea. Wonder where shag came from.
I think all the words you highlighted except for afternoon come from latin. Influence definitely does, in = in, fluence = flowing. Language...
Ahhh, but when we get their languages wrong and we're told we've got it wrong, we just accept it. We don't start digging out silly american...
probably more. And the rest were invented by shakespeare. English is the product of a mix of all sorts of languages, Germanic and Romance...
Didn't the Vindaloo originate from there?
I love foreigners. I just wish they'd get our language right, that's all!
well that's one I'll let them have, if they can only do one operation at a time then I suppose it makes sense for them to call it math. English...
Wrong. Proper english is simply standard english, with the standard being set by London and the home counties. The Queen's English, if you will....
That's a friend at uni. Don't know a singer called Sade. Will have to investigate. :)
I've ranted about the American language so many times, people would think i actually enjoy it. Well I suppose I do enjoy yank-bashing in general....
I don't watch a lot of telly at the moment. Well I do, but it's old telly that has been made available as digitial video files on filesharing...
Hatfield! I work just a few miles away from there! I watched neighbours during my school days when I would come home and turm the telly on....
Well my main problem with Mary Poppins, other than the Dick Van Dyke catastrophe is that with the possible exception of the police constable,...
No idea. All I ever hear is Melbourne. There are plenty of pomms who can do ozzies. I've been immitating the head of Fairlight and his "Git...
Well to us pomms there are only about 3 cities in Oz and we don't really know the difference and I've never been anywhere near any of them. I've...
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