On inspiration
When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope. ‘Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
The perfect gentleman
So what do you think makes a perfect gentleman? ITV’s Good Morning Britain wanted to find out and invited etiquette expert William Hanson to tell them.
Can you guess the longest word?
What is the longest word in the English language? “Smiles”. Because there’s a mile between its first and last letters! 🙂
Can you remember a face?
How good are you at remembering faces? Do the BBC’s “Face Memory Test” (there are three parts to it) to test your skills.
Do you do this to the corners?
You want to explain to a colleague that you hate those folded down corners of a book page? Of course, you know the German word ‘Eselsohren’ but don’t know the English word. Well, we call them ‘dog ears’.
Read this short text here to find out what Deutsche Welle has to say about them.
