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Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoThe same puzzling origins are shared by other zoological terms in the English lexicon, like “pig,...
Right on Q – Paul Clements on a capital letter
The Irish Times· 6 days agoOne hundred and fifty years ago the now familiar Qwerty keyboard was patented by the American politician and inventor Christopher Sholes. Effectively a...
How to get Champagne quality at Prosecco prices
Daily Mail· 1 day agoCrémant, like ...must undergo a second fermentation (usually for nine months – less than Champagne) in its bottle ‘on lees’ (meaning in contact with dead...
Tom Collins: Whatever the general election result, we are hitched to a sinking ship
The Irish News· 6 days ago“Change” is Keir Starmer’s cry. ‘More of the same’ is what we will get. For the past 14 years, the ...
UK Election 2024: Hour-by-Hour Guide to How the Results Come In
Bloomberg via Yahoo News UK· 4 days ago...buck the polls and claim what would be an extraordinary turnaround victory.Most Read from...
Wimbledon was where young pretender Murray became a man
Daily Mail· 6 days agoWe could see what Wimbledon threw at him. We saw how he faced up to that. Murray always gave what...
Here’s how bad it is for Sunak: I went to the most Tory seat in Britain – and the word on people’s...
The Guardian· 5 days agoIf politics is a soap opera, the people of Canvey Island switched off a few years ago. This is England at its most Conservative, literally: the island is in the constituency ...
Everything you need to know about the Premier League squad rules
GiveMeSport· 2 days agoThe Premier League is one of the hardest competitions in the world to win. People often think that...
The UK used to be a European tourism hot spot. Here’s how it all went wrong
CNN via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoThe UK is the only major country in Europe not to return to pre-pandemic tourism levels. Here’s why...