Pub Quiz thread
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Nope not Estonian - I know their language has a habit of grouping letters together, they have some words with the letter a four times in succession. The language here is a Romanic language.
Apparently, the Finnish lingo is closely aligned to Turkish for some obscure reason...Weird fact of the day.
Related to Latin but simplified the original Latin tense system. The official state language in two countries.
So, to sum up. A Latin based language. Can use the letter i three times in succession and does so in all masculine nouns which are in plural and with a definite article, and in all cases where there appears an i in the root word (at any stage before the end). The only language where the letter i can be repeated 3 times consecutively. The state language in two countries (one of them in the EU).
I'm reliably informed that one of the (many) reasons that Finland's Education system ranks highly in the world is that the language is easier to learn than most others. That allows for less time spent at school studying the intricacies of spelling & grammar and more time for the stuff that matters - pupils there are generally further advanced than pupils of their age in other countries.
All yours BB
From the original example noun - child, a child is Copil in Rumanian, children - copii and the children copiii. This applies to all masculine nouns which contain an i in the root word. Apparently the first and third i is emphasized but not the second - which must lead to all sorts of facial contortions !
Debatable in my experience - or at least when it's spoken. One of my Besties was Finnish - alas he died a few years ago - and was a big Hornets fan, quite a well known "face". His ex (divorced) wife is Welsh and that's her first language so he spoke that fluently too as well as impeccable English.
Oh, Kimmo: I miss you mate!!
Cheers cologne.All yours BB
Apart from being a famed music festival, Glastonbury has one other claim to international fame - a sporting achievement. What is that achievement?
I wouldn't classify that as a sport, nevermind an achievement.Welly boot throwing was invented there
This is a popular team sport, the achievement is unlikely to be matched - and is probably impossible to better.
One summer in a leafy field in Somerset - when the expected noise normally associated with the sport simply didn't happen.
Nope. It was a game using normal equipment - normal for the times (1913) - what was rare about it was part of the scoreline.Something wrong with the normal balls, meaning that they had to use tennis balls
That's it. The only recorded instance of a cricket team failing to score a run and no extras given away by the bowlers.
Over to you.