You should never dance to the enemy’s tune! That applies even to the Taliban, who hate music and don’t have any tunes. After five minutes of glorious soccer, during which Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw scored the fastest ever goal in a Euros final, England went on to the defensive. That was absurd. The Eyeties got deeper and deeper into our half and then, disaster of all disasters, equalised in the second half! Three England players, the Tory-bashing Marcus Rashford, who wasn’t even fit, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, missed their penalty kicks, giving Italy the trophy.
Opening of Kilverstone Wildlife Park, 1 April 1973.
- Credit: Archant Library
We were standing in the middle of Thetford chatting away when suddenly – a little head popped up from my companion s handbag.
It looked around and so did the people passing us in the street and then the crowds gathered to watch this dear little baby monkey.
Brownies have afternoon tea in the monkey house at Kilverstone Wildlife Park, 19 April 1984. Photo: Archant Library
- Credit: Archant Library
The well-known owner of the bag and monkey was Lady Rosamund Fisher who, with her husband Lord John Fisher, ran the wonderful Kilverstone Wildlife Park, a place which I suspect many of you visited in days gone by.
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Should we be worried for the English language when companies drop their vowels to appear more modern? No, say leading linguists, but a company rebranding is wrong because it is ill-judged, confusing and is definitely not the zeitgeist. It stnks.
Standard Life Aberdeen announced on Monday a name change to Abrdn, joining brands such as Flickr, Scribd, Grindr and Tumblr in dropping vowels from their names. The move was met with bafflement and scorn from linguists, who wondered if the name was now pronounced Aburden, Abradon or Aberdeen.
“To me it just smacks of old people trying to use youth language, or wanting to speak like teenagers, which is always a mistake,” said Rob Drummond, a reader in linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and an expert in the language of young people. “It looks like older people desperately trying to sound cool.”
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