Okay, so it's got very little to do with Christmas, but here goes anyway with my QI-style language quiz. It's multiple choice, and I'm not going to post the answers just yet, so if you want to know how you've done before I get round to doing that, feel free to leave your answers as a comment underneath the quiz. Right, here goes:
1. What did the word 'alphabet' first mean?
a) Alpha and beta
b) Alf and Betty
c) Ox and house
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Twitter and all things Twittertastic
'Not here / Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.' Thus wrote T. S. Eliot, that best-known anagram of toilets, in his 1935 poem 'Burnt Norton'. Of course, Old Tom could little have known that, nearly seventy-five years thence, a micro-blogging site called Twitter would be the new big thing in the world of the Internet, following hot on the heels of the success of Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, and all of the other more or less universally known sites the World Wide Web has produced. But here it is, and 2009 has undoubtedly been the year of the Twitter.
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