Some linguists believe that (middle) English derived at core from Old Norse rather than Old English. Some of the evidence is there in Carnyx’s examples - English adopts the Scandinavian word order ra… (View Post)

For what she's asking as the base price, you'd expect more than merely access to a member's bar and the opportunity to mingle with lots of other loons We can get the latter on here, fo… (View Post)

More wisely, I never went. I remember when the projected visitor numbers for the Dome were put before London Council's Environment Committee, and the projections were quite clearly nonsense, and… (View Post)

The earth's orbit is slightly ovoid, not circular, and the earth moves quicker around the sun when we're in the closest parts of the orbit, in December (and June). Hence this month the eart… (View Post)

The optimistic scenario is that the upcoming generation assimilates and many of them become less overtly religious, as has been the case with previous immigrations to our country. The time I spent wi… (View Post)