Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The toothpaste ‘Colgate’ translates in Spanish to “go hang yourself”

In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.

(05-12-2018 19:06 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Techincally LOUGH is pronounced LOCK - but in Scotland its LOCH=LOCK ah, the wonders of the English language!

Lough

A lough is a body of water and is either: ⁕A lake ⁕A sea lough, which may be a fjord, estuary, bay, or sea inlet. It can also be used as a surname, with various pronunciations: law, loch, low, lowe, loth, loff, lohguh. Lough is a Hiberno-English form of the Old Irish word loch, which means lake, or bay. The form loch is also used in Irish English, Lough is also used for some small bodies of water in the far north of England. Except when individually named, loughs are often referred to as lakes, fjords, estuaries, and sea inlets. Thus lake district and estuary bed may be used in preference to lough district and lough bed.

Fair enough, I stand corrected Kelly (not something weird corrected like a whip or cane type thing) it has multiple variations and meanings.

Kelly just be dropping word Science lol

(05-12-2018 19:06 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Techincally LOUGH is pronounced LOCK - but in Scotland its LOCH=LOCK ah, the wonders of the English language!

Sassenach!

Quote:The word "loch" is sometimes used as a shibboleth to identify natives of England, because the fricative [x] sound is used in Scotland whereas most English people pronounce the word like "lock"

In the film CLUE, which was a take on the British version of the board game CLUEDO, you can clearly see the sound boom several times throughout the film both above and below.

(05-12-2018 22:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  

(05-12-2018 19:06 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Techincally LOUGH is pronounced LOCK - but in Scotland its LOCH=LOCK ah, the wonders of the English language!

Sassenach!

Quote:The word "loch" is sometimes used as a shibboleth to identify natives of England, because the fricative [x] sound is used in Scotland whereas most English people pronounce the word like "lock"

Assuming there are Scottish members here... Could one of them explain the derivation of 'Teuter', spellings may vary, but it's supposed to be a derogatory word for non-scots?

I admit one of my favourite Christmas films is 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and if you look closely in the sequence with Sir Michael Caine singing towards the end you might notice a shop called Micklewhites - this was his real surname. A bit of name-dropping here he went to the same school as my father but not at the same time, Grocers (later Hackney Downs School) and a certain playwright Harold Pinter also attended and my father and he had a fight-Pinter won!

David Coleman NEVER said remarkable and wasn't a fan of the series of books called Colemanballs-a collection of funny slip-ups and commentary gaffes from him and others. Things such as "he's stopped his start watch" and "he opened his legs and showed his class"

Another couple of beauts from David Coleman :

“It’s gold or nothing...and it’s nothing, he comes away with the silver medal”

“And the line up for the final of the women’s 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman”