Sunday, July 20, 2003

It must be summer. What happens in summer? Lots of new Nessie sightings of course. Always in summer. So here's a website about the famous monster, and here's another. 10:07:09 AM     |

Oi mate, you looking at my bird! A dictionary of London Slang. Fantastic. The English language contains a rich array of slang words and phrases. This can be particularly seen when examining the day to day language of the average Londoner. A great many London slang terms derive from the Cockney tradition and fall into the bracket of 'Rhyming Slang'. Other terms have been introduced by the influx of other cultures into the capital. The resulting mishmash has created what academics sometimes call 'Estuary English' (after the area of the Thames Estuary), although this term is used more to describe the accent used in the area. 9:49:17 AM     |

I can't believe this. Bush ready to wreck ozone layer treaty [Independent: World News] President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. 9:18:47 AM     |