The list of famous British Muslims is very long; Britain has a long history of close relationships with both Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries : Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Aden etc. So it's no surprise that today 1.8 million Muslims are living in U.K....
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WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP ? Dear London friends, dear Londoners, You are a marvellous people, everyone is hard put to be more welcoming than you are, and yet, once again, blind terror has struck. We know it won't have the last word but still ... . Today we...
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You were born after 1980 and have your own "dialect". Same in the U.S. So if you hear one of the following words, you've got a chance to be talking to a "millennial": - adulting is the new word for growing up (less dramatic, I suppose !) - bigly is a...
Read moreBeware ! The following words are used in French too, but with a different, sometimes very different, meaning: - A drawing-room is not "une salle de dessin". It is a room where gentlemen withdraw (se retirent) to smoke without disturbing the ladies. It's...
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Classified crossings (Fr. passages pour piétons): - zebra crossing : passage piétons traditionnel, la chaussée est zébrée de bandes de peinture blanche (ou jaune); parfois encore appelé "passage clouté" en français; - pelican crossing : passage décalé,...
Read moreWhat equivalents do English speakers find for the French idioms ? °l'appétit vient en mangeant : (the) appetite comes with (the) eating. °C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité : it's like the pot calling the kettle black . °On voit la paille dans...
Read moreThere used to be a habit of getting as close as possible to the King's English, nowadays it seems the Queen's English is full of surprises, as illustrated by a recent article in The Sun. Alison Maloney sure has a knack for writing fun ! Her article is...
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