I am back in the kingdom

I have returned from a brief stint (is that the right word? is that a word at all?) in Germany and Belgium. I was in Brussels and I thought it a fabulous coincidence in the English language that the city enjoys mussels. Brussels, mussels. It doesn’t work in the actual languages they speak there, though.

I am now leaving to collect my parents from the airport.

An ambiguity in the English language

The English language is an enigmatic beast, full of beauty and splendor and rife with confusing ambiguities. I think my favorite construction is an adjective followed by two nouns. The tricky part here is that sometimes we use a noun as an adjective in order to describe another noun. For example, this weekend I passed a laundromat with the name “Giant Laundry Center“. The noun “Laundry” is used adjectivally to describe “Center”. This leaves “Giant” open to describe either of the two nouns. Humorous, to say the least. Let me know if you find others, I will rejoice.

Accents I’ve found interesting

English, Scottish, Irish, Italian, French, German, Polish, Indian