And the final -ið is the definite article. Scandinavian languages like to tag them onto the end. There is a Danish newspaper called Morgenblad I think. For other uses of the word blade = leaf, in Old… (View Post)

Selling them Agincourt would be amusing. Maybe the new ones could be named after those captured French ships they brought into British service during the Napoleonic wars, such as Tonneur and Temeraire (View Post)

You need to know how many pints are in a firkin if you are serving beer! (72, but 65 is a better estimate of saleable pints). I tend to switch between metric and imperial, and if I had kids they woul… (View Post)

He's a c*** towards the French too. Awesome. Appears to have forgotten the French support for the nascent USA too. (And Scott Morrison's name, but to be fair, he's not called Bruce so … (View Post)

She could be tried for treason "adhered to the Queen's enemies in her realm, giving them aid and comfort in her realm or elsewhere". Casement and Joyce are precedents. Joyce wasn'… (View Post)