In many English words that can be both nouns and verbs:
- If the accent is on the word’s first syllable, it’s probably the noun form.
- If the accent is on the word’s second syllable, it’s probably the verb form.
Category: Stranger than Fiction
In case you don’t remember 1992 or were too young to remember it, this is — if you’ll pardon the pun — a very inside joke.
(You can see a dramatized version of the story in the Netflix series The Crown, in season 5, episode 5, titled The Way Ahead.)
To be fair, it’s a terrible thing to have one’s private conversation with one’s lover broadcast to the world at large. But if it had to happen to two people, why not two terribly unpleasant people — who were both married, and not to each other — who now lead a luxurious life on taxpayer money?
And in case you were wondering, Charles III and Camilla will be crowned as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms this Saturday, May 6th at Westminster Abbey. I suspect I will have better things to do than catch it on TV, but expect any English-themed pubs to be unbearable this weekend.
Is “extra heavy duty” mayonnaise thicker? Tangier? Eggier? Oilier? I need to know.
Whether you think that coriander (a.k.a. cilantro) tastes like citrus and curry or soap, you have to admit that Pizza Hut’s limited-time, only-in-Japan “Too Much Coriander” pizza looks a lot healthier than anything else they’ve ever made.
Underneath the pile of leaves and above the dough, there are also prawns, tomato paste, and yangnyeom sauce (the sauce you put on Korean fried chicken, with a gochujang base, but then made sweeter and more garlic-y).
Seen last Sunday in Orlando.
Isn’t that how the rhyme goes? “Thirty days hath February…”