Thanks for the advice. In fact a neighbour with mysterious connections to the NHS powers that be gave her a telephone number which wasn't on any website that we could see and she now has an appo… (View Post)

One of Sunak's jobs is to rein in Johnson's wilder spending ambitions. Nothing new for the relations between 10 and 11. (View Post)

ISTR they went for the Russian Sputnik. (View Post)

edit: i.e. it is a loan word from Swedish like many others, unsurprisingly. (View Post)

@BlancheLivermore " ... Proto-Germanic aluth another word for beer.... " Aluth looks similar to the Finnish word for beer, olut. It's seldom one can find connections of that kind betwe… (View Post)