+- The UK Babe Channels Forum (https://www.babeshows.co.uk)
+-- Forum: General (/forumdisplay.php?fid=19)
+--- Forum: All Other Subjects (/forumdisplay.php?fid=114)
+---- Forum: Fun Zone (/forumdisplay.php?fid=106)
+---- Thread: Fascinating Facts and Trivia (/showthread.php?tid=74832)
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 05-12-2018 20:03
The toothpaste ‘Colgate’ translates in Spanish to “go hang yourself”
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 05-12-2018 20:04
In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - kelly1066 - 05-12-2018 21:24
(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.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 05-12-2018 22:04
Fair enough, I stand corrected Kelly (not something weird corrected like a whip or cane type thing) it has multiple variations and meanings.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - The Goatman - 05-12-2018 22:23
Kelly just be dropping word Science lol
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - The Silent Majority - 05-12-2018 22:27
(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"
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 05-12-2018 22:40
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.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - kelly1066 - 05-12-2018 22:55
(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? 
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 05-12-2018 23:55
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"
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 06-12-2018 00:19
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”
