Life Great Unanswered Questions

[Guest TinCanFan]

How do Scottish people say "wee" instead of little?

[Guest couchpotato]

What do Irish battles fought over 300 years ago have to do with Scottish football ?

History lesson................The Battle of the Boyne was fought between refuge seeking Jacobites and English forces. Both sides recruited the assistance of Irishmen, most of whom ran away when the battle started. If you ever get the chance to be in that area go see the battlefield and the relics of that skirmish. Reminded me a bit of Culloden but with a river.

So they were football playing Jacobites?

[Connie.Orr]

"So they were football playing Jacobites?"

DUH!!....of course they were, thought everyone knew that!

[Johnboy]

How do Scottish people say "wee" instead of little?

You mean : Why do Scottish people say "wee" instead of little?

I've heard Americans use the word "wee" on numerous occasions... although it is a word you seldom hear uttered in England.

Why do Scottish people use the word "how" when they really mean "why"...?

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[Guest couchpotato]

Why do Scottish people use the word "how" when they really mean "why"...?

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Should that not be    how do Scottish people use the word "how" when they mean "why"

[tm4tj]

although it is a word you seldom hear uttered in England.

Phonetically speaking, they use it often to remind us they won the world cup...........we won the world cup in 1966,  Did you :010:

[Scarlet Pimple]

And the difference between going downtown and going uptown is..? :016:

[The Mantis]

Why do some countries use the word 'little' when they mean 'wee'?

[Johnboy]

Why do some countries use the word 'little' when they mean 'wee'?

I really don't think you should be introducing backward, third world countries into this high level and intellectually stimulating debate...  :018:

[Guest TinCanFan]

How do Scottish people say "wee" instead of little?

You mean : Why do Scottish people say "wee" instead of little?

I've heard Americans use the word "wee" on numerous occasions... although it is a word you seldom hear uttered in England.

Why do Scottish people use the word "how" when they really mean "why"...?

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[Guest TinCanFan]

Why do most posters refer to ICT as "us" or "we"?

[Kingsmills]

Like most football fans we have an understandable feeling of "ownership" of "our" club.

[Johnboy]

Why do church steeples always have lightning conductors...?

Doesn't this demonstrate a lack of faith..?

[Guest TinCanFan]

Where does the term "hear hear" come from?

Has anyone noticed the mistake is the name if this thread which has been here for months?

[RowdyBey]

Where does the term "hear hear" come from?

Has anyone noticed the mistake is the name if this thread which has been here for months?

It should say Life's????  :029:

[tm4tj]

It was one of lifes great unanswered questions............................until you answered it :029:

My buddie Wikipedia said...........

Hear hear is an expression that originated as hear ye, or hear him, usually repeated. This imperative was used to call attention to a speaker's words, and naturally developed the sense of a broad expression of favour. This is how it is still used today, although one can always vary one's tone to express different sentiments; the Oxford English Dictionary noted around the turn of the century that the phrase is now the regular form of cheering in the House of Commons, and expresses, according to intonation, admiration, acquiescence, indignation, derision, etc.

As a parliamentary cheer, hear him, hear him! is first recorded in the late 17th century and continued into the 19th; the reduction to hear! or hear, hear! occurred by the late 18th century. However, the use of the verb hear as an imperative meaning listen! is older: a notable example is the parliamentary-sounding Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear (2 Samuel 20, verse 16) in the King James Bible, first published in 1611.

Aside from the interjection, a number of other forms are found, such as a hear, hear (originally, of course, a hear him or hear ye), "a cheer"; hear-hear, to shout "hear, hear!"; and hear-hearer[citation needed], a person who shouts "hear, hear!".

Source: Partial citation of a "words at random" posting on the randomhouse.com website

[Scarlet Pimple]

Amen :015: Amen!

[jaggedthistle]

Why when people ask you "what three things would you bring with you on a desert island?" no one ever replies, "A BOAT"

Do penguins have knees?

[Guest TinCanFan]

Did Neil Armstrong really land on the moon?

What do the Masons do?

Why are some people proud of which country they are from?

[+L_G]

Why is it that Dieticians are often fat?  :015: :015: :015:

[PullMyFinger]

Why when people ask you "what three things would you bring with you on a desert island?" no one ever replies, "A BOAT"

Do penguins have knees?

Penguins do not have knees.  :001:

Why is it not just fish that smells like fish?  :023:

[PullMyFinger]

Why are ICT having a St Patricks day Party?

linky

Are we going to celebrate St Davids day? St Georges day? Where will it stop?

[Charles Bannerman]

I'd thought about going along to support it until I realised that they were including a whole lot of Irish things in it like Guinness (which I don't like) and Irish Jigs (and presumably yon funny dancing where you flap your feet about and keep your arms straight down by your sides - I Flatley refuse to do it  :015:).

So I deicded instead to help a couple of very worthy individuals to celebrate their birthdays!

[VIVA LAS TOKLEY]

what's the differnce between flammable and inflammable?

[RednBlackComeback]

what's the differnce between flammable and inflammable?

'in' .... :rotflmao: