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cymry3jones
Wrinkly. Brit. Ex-pat for more years than I want to remember. Human rights activist. Socialist. Translator and legal adviser for asylum seekers.
Is there any difference in meaning between 'I have' and 'I do have'?
Apart from the 1st.being British English and the 2nd. used more in the US of A.
5 AnswersWords & Wordplay4 years agoWhen did 'liberal' become a 'dirty' word?
Merriam-Webster definition: believing that government should be active in supporting social and political change : relating to or supporting political liberalism.
Nothing about 'communism', but close to 'socialism'. What?! That has to go!
16 AnswersPolitics4 years agoIn the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, how long before POTUS sends the following Tweet?
Hey, you guys, the US can't do this alone. It's time other countries joined us in the fight against climate change.
12 AnswersPolitics4 years agoWhy did the Brits get so many place names wrong during the time of the Empire?
Calcutta/ Kolkata, Bombay/Mumbai, Madras/Chennai (!), Canton/Guandong, and Kowloon - presumably Gau lung (which means Nine Dragons).
17 AnswersHistory4 years agoHave you noticed that Yahoo Answers is quite quiet at weekends?
Does this indicate that most people visit the site during working hours?
7 AnswersPolls & Surveys4 years agoWhat does pre-history mean?
Looking at some of the 'history' questions, it could be as late as the US declaration of Independence!
9 AnswersHistory4 years agoWhy does the US think it can 'go it alone' in destroying the nuclear deal with Iran?
Does Potus not know it was also signed by UK, France, China, Russia and Germany?
3 AnswersMilitary4 years agoPoor old Scaramucci. Did no one tell him where he got his name?
Scaramouche, Italian Scaramuccia, stock character of the Italian theatrical form known as the commedia dell’arte; an unscrupulous and unreliable servant. His affinity for intrigue often landed him in difficult situations.
3 AnswersOther - Politics & Government4 years agoHave you ever been inspired or moved by a poem?
Personally, I have been inspired by John Donne's 'No man is an island', written in 1624 and Robert Burn's 'Man's inhumanity to man', written in 1784.
12 AnswersPoetry4 years agoWhat's civil about a civil war?
The German's call it Bürgerkrieg, which is a war between citizens.
8 AnswersWords & Wordplay4 years agoHow long before the Sultan of Turkey insists that those living in the east of the country be referred to as 'mountain' Turks?
And that the language they speak is a primitive form of Turkish!
4 AnswersOther - Politics & Government4 years agoWhat is the UK's 'special relationship' with the US?
It appears to mean that the US will drag the UK into war with any country the present POTUS decides to attack.
7 AnswersPolitics4 years ago