You both got there together ! Traditionally a persons birth was dated from the conception so children were considered as being 9 months old when born (rounded up to a year) - this was the traditional Korean method. There was also another 'official' reckoning which was that a baby automatically became one year old on January the First (even if born in the preceding December). The new administration has now adopted the international system and thus made everyone younger (on paper). I don't know what the system is in North Korea ? You can choose between you - whoever is quicker.
Presumably they weren't aware of the number zero? Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi must be spinning in his grave...
Ok. As far as I know, there is only 1 word (in English) that has 3 occurrences of the letter 'y'. What is it ?
Very good , as it is not the one I know. So, what is the only (so far as I know ) noun with 3 occurrences ?
Ok - to be absolutely clear - a noun (not a proper noun e.g. a placename or person ) with 3 occurrences of the letter 'y'
Well the horns did play hyperabysmally at times last year. But, failing that it could be syzygy, which sounds Polish but is the word for an endgame tables base used in a chess engine - but also in astronomy for when 3 large objects eg. planets form a straight line eg. Sun-Moon-Earth. I'm sure there must be others somewhere.
Cheers Bodbo - a Continental one. Which is the only language in Europe where the letter i (for Italy) appears three times in succession at the end of plural nouns with an article as in eg the children ?
Time for some clues here. If you wanted to shout ''Come on you Hornets'' in this language it would be ''Haide viespi'' - however - come on the hornets would have to change this structure. There are none of the present crop of Hornets who speak this as their first language. If there was a Hornet from this place his family name could end with i but it's more likely to end with a completely different vowel. The only reason I know anything about this language is because when I took the German language test as part of the naturalization process my partner for the spoken exam was from there.
