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- Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Beefeater
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8182
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...
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: hélas!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7341
Re: hélas!
Doesn't it have the same or equivalent meaning as "perish"?
- Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: hélas!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7341
hélas!
perish
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: HAREBRAINED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7818
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...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: knack
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5929
knack
Wasn't there a British movie in the 60s called "The Knack"?
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PIZZA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10221
- 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
Monika