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  • #91
    Re: Interesting questions which go unanswered

    Originally posted by zabadak View Post
    Oh no you don't...
    I was just going to say that!
    I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
    There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
    I'm having so much fun
    My lucky number's one
    Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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    • #92
      Why does Grape Nuts have neither grapes nor nuts?

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      • #93
        Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing so why do the two words exist?

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        • #94
          How do you remind yourself to buy Post-It notes?

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          • #95
            Originally posted by Semi42 View Post
            Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing so why do the two words exist?
            It's a bit like the UK government and the BBC who both think that British and English mean the same thing.
            Last edited by George 1978; 10-03-2021, 20:50.
            I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
            There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
            I'm having so much fun
            My lucky number's one
            Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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            • #96
              A pair of trousers, knickers, pants ....when there’s only one article of clothing

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              • #97
                Originally posted by Semi42 View Post
                A pair of trousers, knickers, pants ....when there’s only one article of clothing


                Ah! I might know this one.
                The earliest form of trousers were known as Hose and, as the name suggests, were a pair of tubular (usually woollen) items that you would pull onto your legs and fasten them together at the top with a buckle of sorts and perhaps a codpiece.
                By the end of the 16th century, the fashion for two separate hose had ended and the waist band and codpiece/fly became an integrated part of the garment. The practice of referring to it in the plural though persisted.

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