It's a very long way from Balmoral to Auld Reekie.
That there are two versions of the Royal Standard - one for Scotland and one for the rest of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_the_United_KingdomOnce again, Wales' presence on a flag is absent...
Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 11 September, 2022, 06:23:18 pmThat there are two versions of the Royal Standard - one for Scotland and one for the rest of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_the_United_KingdomOnce again, Wales' presence on a flag is absent... I assume that's 'cause Wales is a principality whereas Scotland is/was a kingdom in its own right?
Kim, you are very bad!
Psychopomp. I like that word.
Quote from: rafletcher on 06 August, 2022, 08:49:03 pmThe origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'first to the mill gets ground/milled first(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')
The origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.
Quote from: meddyg on 11 August, 2022, 10:56:06 pmQuote from: rafletcher on 06 August, 2022, 08:49:03 pmThe origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'first to the mill gets ground/milled first(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')Similarly in German "Wer zuerst kommt mahlt zuerst" (I think I've got that right) - "who comes first grinds (their corn) first" - meaning "First come, first served".
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.
Quote from: ian on 19 September, 2022, 09:53:38 pmThe oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.There’s a few bristlecone pines over thataway //// that are more than 4000 years old, though since even the living ones look dead I'm not sure how they tell.
Quote from: ian on 19 September, 2022, 09:53:38 pmThe oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.Parking spaces at the Tree Museum car park are in short supply.
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 19 September, 2022, 10:27:28 pmQuote from: ian on 19 September, 2022, 09:53:38 pmThe oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.There’s a few bristlecone pines over thataway //// that are more than 4000 years old, though since even the living ones look dead I'm not sure how they tell.Someone took a core sample of the oldest one in 1957. I bicycled up to the Schulman Grove of bristlecone pines a few times in the late '80s/early '90s from the town of Big Pine.
Quote from: fimm on 15 September, 2022, 12:54:40 pmQuote from: meddyg on 11 August, 2022, 10:56:06 pmQuote from: rafletcher on 06 August, 2022, 08:49:03 pmThe origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'first to the mill gets ground/milled first(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')Similarly in German "Wer zuerst kommt mahlt zuerst" (I think I've got that right) - "who comes first grinds (their corn) first" - meaning "First come, first served".And in French there's an expression "entrer comme dans un moulin" or "go in [somewhere] as if it's a mill", implying that anyone could walk into a mill any time.
That's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do
Quote from: The French TandemThat's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do Ahem. "The French initiated the line-of-people meaning in the 1790s, and the first uses noted by the OED either italicized it as a foreign word or used it in a Gallic context, as in this quote from Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (1837): 'That talent … of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes … the French People.'"See https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2022/09/20/the-queue/