What a great word. Thanks BD.

In Australia scrub also refers to native bushland.

I always thought it was a baseball expression. I remember coming across something on the internet some time ago suggesting it may have come from a reference to a mental hospital to the left of the left field on a baseball park in Chicago. Also there is the fact that left has since Latin times been t...

If you were looking to change or simplify spellings maybe you could start by spelling phonetic with an f.

I agree with some previous posters though - I like what the spelling tells us about the history and the origin of the word.

Actually I like the beer in Belgium, every different type of beer has to be served in its own specific type of glass. It seems this got tough on some of the types of beer which came later as they were being served in bunsen burner shaped glasses. Best beer I ever had in Germany was in the Augustine ...

Ahh the ubiquitous Fosters. It seems like I come across Fosters more overseas than I do here. Actually I don't know anyone who drinks it here ( I'm sure plenty of people do it just seems more common overseas). Maybe the good people at Fosters overseas marketing lucked out.

Thanks Larry,

I can stop worrying now that I have been using the term incorrectly, at least from my perspective and relax ( probably involving some of those long necks of which you speak).

Thanks for the responses. Its interesting, at least in this part of Australia the phrase "lucked out" means the opposite of what it seems to mean in your parts of the world. I checked with some of my colleagues here to make sure I wasn't the only person who used it this way, mostly to make...

I was watching an American movie the other night and one of the characters said he "lucked out" - the meaning being he got lucky. I have always heard the term "lucked out" used to mean ran out of luck. Is there a different meaning for this term in America?

A word I often use instead of camp is kitsch. Looking at the definition though there may be a slight difference in meaning in that camp may encompass something above and beyond kitsch.

Thanks for all the replies guys. Tim I had heard that se camper idea before. That seems to be the most popular theory I think.

Wondering what the etymology is for this word. Not camp as in tent and fire in some wilderness setting but camp as in Blankety Blanks or the Batman and Robin tv serials of the 1960s.

Salisbury Cathedral has to be one of my favourite cathedrals I have been to, although I recall having to stand a long way back to photograph the whole thing. Actually I think I just like the whole area especially the view from the top of Old Sarem, if I remember the name of the hill correctly, which...