Their language lives on to an extent in the Channel Islands as our native languages are “Norman French”. A French ex of mine said that when she first arrived here she thought we were taking the piss … (View Post)

We also didn’t have the word “beef”. Imagine where we would be today if we didn’t have beef curtains as English words. (View Post)

Great, but does he play bass guitar? (View Post)

… Is it just me of does Dmitry Peskov look like he was the bass player in Kajagoogoo in a past career and now has the less embarrassing role of Kremlin Spokesman? (View Post)

The Mamluks largely did the job for the Ottomans - slave mercenaries originally from the Eurasian Steppe so hard people from a hard landscape. (View Post)