While I've been away we've had a new lady from Kyrgyzstan start work in the office. This inevitably led me to the wiki page for her country, where I learned of the extremely misogynistic so… (View Post)

How the Russian word for railway stations came about is one of my favourite etymological stories of all time (View Post)

I haven't much to say on topic so will just update everyone about what I learnt while trying to think of something funny to say about scum I found the archaic words scumber and cumberground, bot… (View Post)

I think you ought to give a bit more warning before your tests! (View Post)

On a related bit of trivia, in this video of Sharon Jones & the DapKings live, the bass player is Hagar Ben Ari - an Israeli born lady who now plays in the SNL band, who I met after a gig, made f… (View Post)