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Something I must get off my chest!
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27 Jun 2010 Sun 10:50 am |
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Is this what makes you say it?
Errr not where I live 
I was very close to getting struck by lightening once, picking strawberries - it hit the electricity pole beside me and threw me across the field! So there is a chance 
 
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27 Jun 2010 Sun 02:18 pm |
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I was very close to getting struck by lightening once
See LIR´s earlier post!
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27 Jun 2010 Sun 02:26 pm |
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I read somewhere that Londoners say "fink" instead of "think" (or pronounce it as such)
I fink I need a cup of coffee.
Really? I learned my first words of English from the tv, and I used to say f instead of th. I sounded much more like a f than an s to my ears.  I only started to say "think" instead of "fink" when I was about 10, 11.
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27 Jun 2010 Sun 02:54 pm |
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How come "love" means zero, any idea? (Watching Wmbledon these days)
15-0 fifteen love
30-0 thirty love
40-0 fourty love
0-15 love fifteen
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27 Jun 2010 Sun 03:29 pm |
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How come "love" means zero, any idea? (Watching Wmbledon these days)
15-0 fifteen love
30-0 thirty love
40-0 fourty love
0-15 love fifteen
etc
from all about tennis.com
the term love (possibly derived from the French word for egg, l´oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero)
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 10:38 am |
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To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.
Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.
A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”
source: here
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 11:36 am |
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from all about tennis.com
the term love (possibly derived from the French word for egg, l´oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero)
How about deuce? (Beraber in Turkish).
What the deuce is the derivation of deuce???
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 11:43 am |
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From the French ´a deux´ meaning you still need two points to win.
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 11:46 am |
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From the French ´a deux´ meaning you still need two points to win.
Wow ... I am impressed sonunda with your knowledge!!! For those of us stuck in turkey who didnt see the news this morning, is Andy Murray still in?
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 11:47 am |
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Wow ... I am impressed sonunda with your knowledge!!! For those of us stuck in turkey who didnt see the news this morning, is Andy Murray still in?
He plays Nadal this afternoon in the semi-final.
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02 Jul 2010 Fri 11:51 am |
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He plays Nadal this afternoon in the semi-final.
Did you say Barbara Nadel??? If so ... just let me plug her latest book Death by Design which this week comes out in paperback, so is affordable! The latest in the fabulous Inspector İkmen mysteries, this time İkmen ends up having to go undercover in the Turkish community in North London ... can´t wait to get my copy!!!
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