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ATTENTION LANCASTRIANS!!!

In the song 'Mi Granny' by The Fivepenny Piece (poem by Samuel Laycock I think) there is a line 'God bless her oo's FARRENTLY looking,' can anyone explain to me what FARRENTLY means in this context....

honestjohn64-_

Royal Navy

Lieutenant. How's this pronounced these days? It used to be lootenant but on TV it seems to be left-tenant...

ladybirder

Do you think Boris or Ken will be Mayor of London after the election?

Who do you think will win? Will Boris manage to retain it? Oddschecker has them almost neck and neck. All answers welcome but especially from Londoners.

FredPuli43

Midwifery schism!

Why do we pronounce midwifery 'midWIFFery' and not 'midwife-ree', 'midwife-ery' or even 'midwivery'? And I was taught that the word schism was 'sizm' [ the 'siz' sounding as in 'scissors'], but there...

santan

a month of sundays

i am doing a quiz where all the answers must contain a day or a month.Am totally stuck on the last one sandy (3,2,4,6,4) any help who'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks....

Sgt.Rock

HYPOCRISY?

The sour faced millionaire minister Francis Maude has been criticizing UNISON's mandate to strike on the 30th November due to what he says was a low voting turnout. The percentage of members who voted...

lilyanne

Tantadlems

These were made by my grandma with the last scraps of left over pastry... I made them and then my granchildren mentioned that their Dad made them. This seems to be a name passed down through family ....

Clanad

Brits excel ... again!

One more time... you Brits show grit and guts reminiscent of Churchill, while our feckless President and Secretary of State walk a tight rope between appeasement and no action. Background: "In a...

lozbell

last one for guardian 25244.

20 down: bisyllabic hooligan meets trisyllabic american. I have a_a_h_. Any help please?

virmos

How to understand this quatation?

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for sacrifices he makes on her account... (W. Somerset Maugham) What is meant under sacrifices?...

woolfy42

Halogen ovens.

Does anyone have a halogen oven? If so, I just wondered if they do brown a chicken and make crisp chips and crisp skinned baked potatoes as the makers claim.

dachse

Is the use of the word 'yet' gramatically correct in the current Jaguar XF ad on TV?

Is the use of the word 'yet' gramatically correct in the current Jaguar XF ad on TV? Is goes something like: .....and why didn't we win in 2007? Because the XF wasn't in production yet. I would have...

Bert

You say 'vermillion', I say 'vermilion'

I now know that 'vermillion' is an allowed (in some dictionaries, but not Chamber's) spelling of 'vermilion'. Does anybody out there (Quizmonster, for example) know what is the history of these two...

AndiFlatland

Is there a word missing from our language?

As BROTHER is to FRATERNITY, and SISTER is to SORORITY... So what's the equivalent for SIBLING? I don't think there is one - at least, none of my friends can think of one. Anyone want to venture a new...