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Toasting

What is toasting?
12:04 Fri 21st Dec 20011 answer, last by andy hughes 19:05 Fri 21st Dec 2001
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Smallest language

Which living language has the least number of speakers?
12:00 Fri 21st Dec 20011 answer, last by sgs 16:19 Wed 02nd Jan 2002
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Ukonian

What's a Ukonian
08:24 Tue 18th Dec 20011 answer, last by sgs 08:28 Tue 18th Dec 2001
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US spelling

Why is British and US spelling different?
08:23 Tue 18th Dec 20011 answer, last by sgs 08:30 Tue 18th Dec 2001
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High horse

Who first came up with the expresions 'don't get on your high horse' and 'get off your high horse' and other permutations of the same?
08:27 Sat 08th Dec 20012 answers, last by divan 13:45 Mon 10th Dec 2001
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Walt the Ripper

Why does crime writer Patricia Cornwell think that British Impressionist painter Walter Sickert was the real Whitechapel murderer?
08:25 Sat 08th Dec 20015 answers, last by SRAYN1 11:14 Thu 20th Dec 2001
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Lit Fic

Can someone please offer a sensible definition of 'literary fiction'?
07:40 Wed 28th Nov 20011 answer, last by barrywom 17:30 Fri 30th Nov 2001
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cheese

Why do photographers ask sitters to say 'cheese'?
11:20 Tue 06th Nov 20011 answer, last by incitatus 12:43 Tue 06th Nov 2001
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Hardy

Does anyone now anything about the collection of Thomas Hardy material that went on sale last week (15/10/01)?
20:07 Sun 28th Oct 20011 answer, last by boatman 11:34 Tue 06th Nov 2001
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rampant

What does 'rampant' mean in heraldry?
12:03 Wed 24th Oct 20013 answers, last by sgs 08:53 Mon 05th Nov 2001
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turing

What's the 'turing' in turing test?
07:49 Mon 22nd Oct 20011 answer, last by sgs 07:52 Mon 22nd Oct 2001
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Jack Vettriano

Does anyone know anything about the British artist Jack Vettriano?
07:49 Thu 11th Oct 20013 answers, last by sgs 07:39 Mon 22nd Oct 2001
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Old Firm

What does 'firm' mean in Old Firm, re. Celtic v. Rangers games?
07:48 Thu 11th Oct 20013 answers, last by divan 13:26 Wed 24th Oct 2001
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Poet Laureate

Who was the first Poet Laureate?
07:10 Mon 08th Oct 20012 answers, last by sgs 07:43 Mon 22nd Oct 2001
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Marlowe

Is there any proof that Christopher Marlowe wrote some of the plays attributed to Shakespeare?
21:12 Sun 23rd Sep 20011 answer, last by bobsailer 09:30 Tue 02nd Oct 2001
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Tybern

What's a tybern tree?
18:41 Sun 16th Sep 20012 answers, last by tblevy 22:07 Sat 22nd Sep 2001
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Lost and found

What does 'found objects' mean in reference to a type of painting?
10:14 Wed 12th Sep 20012 answers, last by sgs 07:31 Mon 17th Sep 2001
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zyzygy

Going back to the vowel-less word question below, what does zyzygy mean then?
09:58 Wed 12th Sep 20011 answer, last by ssmart 10:52 Tue 25th Sep 2001
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Peake practice

I've heard that there is an edition of Alice in Wonderland coming out with drawings by Gormenghast writer Mervyn Peake. Is this true?
19:14 Mon 10th Sep 20011 answer, last by SIMONGR 19:24 Mon 10th Sep 2001
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Odd

Is English a particularly quirky language, or do we just have barmy spelling?
19:11 Mon 10th Sep 20012 answers, last by seana_g 16:07 Fri 26th Oct 2001

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