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The United Kingdom and the crown explained

Here is a nice short video explaining many ways by which the United Kingdom and the crown are subdivided. It is quite complicated and more than the information required to pass the Life in the UK test.

Unfortunately it still does not explain why it is normal for people to ‘have nachos for tea today’.

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European English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

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The Ultimate Zidane video

Zidane’s headbutt is old news by now. But the creativity behind the use of 10 sec footage still impresses me.

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