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by Monika
Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:01 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Beefeater
Replies: 6
Views: 8162

Re: Beefeater

The derivations with the meat which one could afford or not with the meat as a remuneration and so on, they are all extremely adventurous. Actually, the "Beefeaters" are nothing else than a corruption of the "Buffetier du Roi", so the employees at table and banquets. This is what...
by Monika
Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:08 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: hélas!
Replies: 5
Views: 7320

Re: hélas!

Doesn't it have the same or equivalent meaning as "perish"?
by Monika
Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: hélas!
Replies: 5
Views: 7320

hélas!

perish
by Monika
Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:08 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: HAREBRAINED
Replies: 5
Views: 7805

harebrained

It is indeed important to know the difference, Mr. Holzman, not only for some food nerds. You can also see it: hares have longer legs and smaller heads than rabbits. You would not keep a hare in a cage. And: rabbits live in packs and burrows. Hares are rogues and live on fields. Children want answer...
by Monika
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:50 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: knack
Replies: 2
Views: 5918

knack

Wasn't there a British movie in the 60s called "The Knack"?
by Monika
Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:23 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PIZZA
Replies: 8
Views: 10221

At school! See also German Encyclopaedia "Brockhaus": the Langobards, a Germanic people of Scandinavian origin (Gotland?) - had their heyday in Lombardia/Upper Italy!
by Monika
Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:57 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PIZZA
Replies: 8
Views: 10221

Pizza

...and Langobard comes from "men with long beards".

Monika

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