a UK Crown Dependency (but not part of the United Kingdom), with its own ancient parliament, the Court of Tynwald; a dependency of Norway until 1266, when for a time it came under Scottish rule; its own language, Manx, became extinct in the 19th century but has been revived to some ...
Possibly the most erudite of Scottish brewers, Young deserted the world of academic philosophy to devote himself to a study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century brewing literature instead, and Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales is the result. A skilled home brewer, he has set up his small brewery ...
It’s the last day of summer in our nether regions… southern… southern. That’s where Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin found himself this week, photographing these bush beer barrels from the Cook Islands in the national museum. As the tiny print says, the beer they made was based on ...
Slang. (used to express satisfaction, approval, or agreement): You got a job? Word! Idioms: 1. be as good as one's word, to do what one has promised. 2. eat one's words, to retract one's statement, esp. with humility. 3. in a word, in summary; in short. 4. in ...
The main changes were that, from Middle to Early Modern English, the long vowels shortened;weefbecamewife,moos*becamemice, beetbecamebite, and so on. (*The wordmooseentered English through Native American languages in 1610). I will also mention that in Scottish, a lot of the older vowel ...
Today I’m going to talk aboutEvery Country’s Sun, the latest work from Scottish post-rock bandMogwai. Released byRock Actionin Europe andTemporary Residencein North America as a stunning Deluxe Edition and consisting of a lift-top box set containing the conventional CD, a double LP on whit...
Scottish inventor John Lodgie Bairddemonstrated the first working televisionthat used cathode ray tubes to mechanically scan pictures displayed on the screen. Called CRTs, they remained wildly popular until the 21st century, when LCD and other electronic displays outpaced them. Sonyshut down CRT produ...
If you get stumped by the Scottish slang, you can purchase a Outlander Dictionary (really there’s 1). Enjoy-It’s like traveling the globe and experiencing their diverse adventures. Deb says: April 29, 2017 at 12:22 am Have you read Memoirs of a Geisha? Compelling, tragic but so ...
Steube was able to crack “momof3g8kids” because he had “momof3g” in his 111 million dict and “8kids” in a smaller dict. “The combinator attack got it! It’s cool,” he said. Then referring to theoft-cited xkcd comic, he added: “This is an answer to the batteryhorsestapl...
Scottish beer powerhouse Brewdog has had to ditch an eye-watering amount of beer, reportedly worth millions of pounds, due to contamination issues. At their renowned brewing facility in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, batches of their celebrated Punk IPA were deemed unsellable following a “major quality inci...