Trivia Quiz 4
British Expat’s fourth trivia quiz features: avatars; potoroos; and spermaceti.
Trivia Quiz 3
British Expat’s third trivia quiz features: the ill woodwind that no-one blows good; Issur Danielovich Demsky; and relative weights of lead and gold.
Trivia Quiz 2
British Expat’s second trivia quiz – featuring the oldest motorway in Britain, the location of Batman, and Sir Winston Churchill’s Nobel Prize.
Trivia Quiz 1
The first of British Expat’s trivia quizzes – including assassinated British Prime Ministers, Casanova’s first name and a Bowman’s Capsule
Ode to Spell Checkers
Ain’t technology great? Well, sometimes it’s only as good as the person using it! Here’s a poem showing how easy it is to confound spell checkers – with not a squiggly red line in sight!
Signs from around the world
English is a language with a very rich vocabulary, expressing a wide range of nuances. If you’re not a native speaker, then getting the right words for your sign can be a tricky matter. Here are some examples of signs that didn’t get it quite right…