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Only in the British Army…

  • Posted by Ross
  • 16 July 2007

“We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”
- Maj Mike Shearer, UK military spokesman, Iraq
(source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm)

A few of my favourite things… er, words.

  • Posted by Ross
  • 26 May 2006

I’ve always enjoyed words - the more unusual, the better. Sometimes it’s the meaning (especially true of words from other languages); where there is no English equivalent. Sometimes it’s the sound they make, or the way they roll off the tongue.
A few of my favourites:

Zeitgeist
Schadenfreude
Tmesis
Plinth

I’m also a fan of long-forgotten phrases… Things that were once [...]