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Canada

What's the point? What has it ever given or contributed to the world? Where does it stand in the international community? It is so anonymous!

misk111

Island on the way to US

I dont remember where I heard this or if I've got the details right. Anyway, apparently there is an island in the Atlantic ocean which is inhabited by a group of English that were on their way to...

spiff

Funniest graffiti/graffito...

The best one's i have ever seen are........ In a pub in Carlisle called the King's Head, which stated 'I've felt Carol Vorderman's Bum'. In London (Holloway) 'Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead!', and in...

IndieSinger

Idea! I say a word, someone posts a linking word, then someone else posts a word linking to that word and so on and so forth until we enter the record books for the longest chain. For instance, if I...

sddsddean

Do these count as oxymorons?

I was listening to the travel news today and it struck me that when the reporter said the A21 was 'badly congested', I thought 'no its not, its very well congested. If it was badly congested it would...

jjf2003

'Proper' English

Following on from the last question, when is it acceptable to break the rules of language? For example, Irish poet Seamus Heaney in his poem 'Digging' describes a bottle 'corked stoppily with paper'....

Lost Tyke

Date query

When does the turn of a century officially start and end?

Greedyfly

Musical mystery pains in the....

God damn.... I am sick of coming on this site and seeing musical mystery questions - Surely if you can't answer them yourselves you don't deserve to win? There are at least 10 musical mystery...

whatever

period of time

in geology what word denotes a period of 1,000,000,000 years

apricot

Words which have meanings different to the way they sound

Oh dear, that sound like gobbledygook, please Spellmaster don't get me?? My favourite word in this category is pulchritudinous - which always sounds quite revolting. Anyone else got examples?

swonkdog

michael aspel's children

is it true about michael aspel's children?

Viz

Double Yokes

If an egg Has a double yoke, does that mean 2 chicks will come out of the one egg?

Spellmaster

sft

Stop being such a two-faced hypocrite, sft.

Spellmaster

To Quizmonster

Since when has using the same words in the same paragraph been an offence in the English language? Since when have all people from the Middle East been Arabs? Since when have jobs such as professional...

monty0703

Rolling Easter Eggs

Do kids still roll their Easter eggs? I used to roll my chocolate (and hard-boiled) Easter egg before scoffing commenced. Nowadays though it seems as if an egg is not enough - money and pressies are...

Mickeymouse

Bodybits???

if weapons are 'arms' and tropical trees are 'palms'.......................what are ships?

marine02

Turin shroud C4 TV show last week

I missed this show but read a Teletext review about it today that said no-one would ever know if it was the real shroud; I thought it had already been proved that the shroud could not be the one used...

Azimov

I'm absobloodylutely flumoxed!

I remember on some quiz show many moons ago the host gave the term used to denote the insertion of one word between the syllables of another (as in the title of this question). I can't find any...

Azimov

'An' hotel?

If the purpose of using 'an' before a vowel sound is to help speech flow more freely, why do we use 'an' before a sounded 'h'? Surely this defeats the purpose? If I allow myself to be somewhat...

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