A 29-year-old man from Rochdale has been jailed for stealing two expensive watches from pawnbrokers, after asking to try on the luxury items before running away with them.
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“creative respelling” of a very common word, and it’s blowing the collective mind of competitive brain tease enthusiasts.[Warning: Spoilers below]Brace yourselves: Ghoti is actually a grammatically correct — albeit alternate —spelling of the word “fish.” Confused? The proof is in the phonetics.Apparently, the “gh” makes an “f” sound like in “enough,” the “o” makes an “i” sound like in “women” and the “ti” makes a “sh” sound like in “nation,” multiple TikTokers explained of the visual challenge with more than 13.4 million viral variations on the video streaming platform.ghoti #ghoti #fish #phonetics #ABC #words #letters #alphabet #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz #joke #funny #humour #playonwords #English #Englishlesson #Englishclass #Englishlanguage #British #britishhumour #vocabularyThis weird wordplay actually dates back to December 1855, according to the brains at the Language Log blog. The first confirmed use ofthe word ghoti occurredin vintage correspondence between British publisher/author Charles Ollier and culture critic and poet Leigh Hunt.
A 29-year-old man from Rochdale has been jailed for stealing two expensive watches from pawnbrokers, after asking to try on the luxury items before running away with them.
There’s nothing like a “meat cute” — especially when it involves falling in love over pork jerky.A couple from the UK experienced love at first bite over their shared fondness for the cured sausage snack Peperami, deciding to take their love for each other — and the cured meat snack — to the next level, tying the knot in a meat-themed wedding.“We take it along with us on days out, enjoy it during movie nights and we even have a stash of it on our bedside table so we can easily reach for it from our bed,” Francesca Brooke-Fenton, 37 told NeedToKnow.online.“It’s fair to say we are obsessed with the snack!” her now-husband Luke Hindmarsh, 33, added. “I proposed last New Year’s Eve during a hotel stay at a fancy Harrogate hotel whilst Francesca was pregnant.”The pair recently welcomed a son, Cielo, to their family and couldn’t wait to tie the knot in a very unique way.The pair said they always wanted to do something a bit “crazy” when they got married, but weren’t sure how — until they thought about the contents of their kitchen cupboard.“Peperami played a big part of the start of our relationship — we both are genuinely in love with the snack, so it made perfect sense to us to have it become center for our big day,” Brooke-Fenton gushed.“I contacted the company about a month ago and expressed our long-lasting obsession for the brand.
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A Kirkcudbright law firm has raised more than £2,500 for charity by volunteering to write wills.
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Gino D'Acampo has been in the UK for over 30 years, having moved from Italy at the age of 19 to continue developing his culinary skills. But despite his long time in the country, it seems he has no desire to meet the Queen unless changes are made to her royal menu.MORE: Gino D'Acampo divides fans after sharing video of massage from 'beautiful' colleagueThe Italian chef has recently revealed that he once turned down Her Majesty's invitation to tea because he didn't like what was on the menu.WATCH: Gino D'Acampo melts hearts with new family addition"I'm not very keen on tea or cucumber sandwiches," the father-of-three told Richard Eden for Daily Mail's Eden Confidential.MORE: Strictly Come Dancing keen to sign up Gino D'Acampo for 2022 seriesREAD: Gino D'Acampo inundated with support after sharing a photo kissing his daughter"I was invited to the Palace for tea just before Covid, but a cucumber sandwich is my worst nightmare.
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