here's a quote that says most of it for me, from Intervention: Reviewed by Penny Stone "There's a scene early in Martin Scorcese's The Aviator where Howard Hughes takes Katharine Hepburn for a ride in a small prop plane which

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I thought it

The ones on the sidewalks are pretty scary, too. Do you have sidewalks in Hertfordshire, Doc? In Oxfordshire we have pavements. I know, I know, Prof. I was trying my best not to confuse the Americans by using the word 'pavements', because

Per R=F8nne) typed thus: =20 obAUE - "driver's license" is American English. The UK ... - I point this out in a spirit of=20 helpfulness). driving (or driver's) licence. =3D=3D=3D It says nothing about a difference between UK and

But you may use bikes and rollerskates without a driver's licence :-). obAUE - "driver's license" is American English. The UK version is "driving licence" - you've conflated the two to make "driver's

Per R=F8nne) typed thus: =20 =20 It was 16 for motorcycles and 17 for cars (in the UK) when I passed my tests. Well, I do think that the low age for driving cars has been standardized in Europe. To 18. Nope. The age for driving a car in the UK is

"Non-white" would be usual in today's US. I don't know whether "colored" was ever used that much in the US to mean "non-white" as opposed to "black or known to be of sub-Saharan African descent".

And in American Sign Language, the sign used to translate the English word "Negro" is now considered to be to ... English word, it is represented by fingerspelling, "N-E-G-R-O." That is according to the author of the following

Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human rights to-day? In the way that Borstals applied them, yes. Britain is no longer disciplinarian, except perhaps in the armed services,

Why we have not learned from the 1920s that prohibition does not work, I cannot explain, except by a possible and mistaken belief that political dogma can change human behaviour. That seems the case. Prohibition couldn't have worked, although