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I bet you didnt know that

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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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pickarooney

server down wrote: »

Maybe he should have said stop is the shortest word with the most anagrams but it goes without saying that this also counts for any anagram of stop.

It's not a logical English sentence though. Either it's the word with the most anagrams or the shortest word with X anagrams.

'set' is, I think, the English word with the most meanings.

Ipso

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

RTE News bringing us the news that matters

Dublin stonemasons given 14 pints of ale a day in 1565

"It has been estimated, however, that most beer at this time would have had an alcohol strength of between 7% and 10%, if they used similar quantities of yeast as they do today."

Hmm. Sounds dubious.
In Belgium the Saison style of beer was supposedly developed for farm workers and it was a low abv beer, around 4%.

server down

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Spat has just as many and is just as short.

Not to mention equally short qualifiers ; Pots, Post, Tops, Opts...

Maybe he should have said stop is the shortest word with the most anagrams but it goes without saying that this also counts for any anagram of stop.

Capt'n Midnight

IIRC

Soul has the most meanings

"air" has the most spellings "err" "ayre" ...

The shortest letter sent was by Victor Hugh asking his publisher how the sales of his new book Les Misérables was going.

?

The reply was even shorter as the book was selling well.

!

The shortest grammatically correct sentence in the English is I am.

The longest sentence is of course I do.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

pickarooney wrote: »

That's not really a quantifiable statement!

Allinall wrote: »

Stop

is the shortest word with most anagrams.

Spat has just as many and is just as short.

Not to mention equally short qualifiers ; Pots, Post, Tops, Opts...

Capt'n Midnight

RTE News bringing us the news that matters

Dublin stonemasons given 14 pints of ale a day in 1565

"It has been estimated, however, that most beer at this time would have had an alcohol strength of between 7% and 10%, if they used similar quantities of yeast as they do today."

pickarooney

Allinall wrote: »

Stop

is the shortest word with most anagrams.

That's not really a quantifiable statement!

tomwaterford

London Ashford airport is closer to France than the city of london

Allinall

Stop

is the shortest word with most anagrams.

Realt Dearg Sec

Can we change the thread title to "Things you didn't know and other things that I just made up"?

tayto lover

GOLF was originally spelled backwards i.e. FLOG because of the way the ball as struck with the club.
I might have made that up.

Snotty

andreas-gursky-the-rhein-II.jpg?fit=4000%2C2240

The above photo is the most expensive photo ever. Called Rhein II it was sold for $4.3 million at an auction
in 2011. The original photo contained a factory in the distance and a girl walking her dog, they were photoshopped out of it.

And that is why I don't even pretend to understand art, seems like Madness, the discription below sounds like a completely different picture, but I assure you it is it

This image is a vibrant, beautiful and memorable – I should say unforgettable - contemporary twist on Germany’s famed genre and favourite theme: the romantic landscape, and man’s relationship with nature.

Ipso

server down wrote: »

This may be well known to some but the river Avon ( of which there is more than one) is called the river Avon because the Romans asked some local in Britain what was the name of the river and he said "River?" in Brittonic and they wrote down what they thought he said, which sounded to them like avon. Or at least that is how it was later written down. Nobody was walking around with big brains back then.

Anyway the modern welsh (a language derived from Brittonic) for river is Afon, and of course the Irish for river is Abhainn. If the bh were pronounced like a V as it may have been in the past, you can see the similarity in sound to both the welsh and Avon.

On a similar theme, in Scotland you have place name prefixes Aber and Inver. Both mean estuary or river mouth.
Aber comes from the p celtic pictish language (similar to Welsh) and inver from gaelic which spread into Scotland by the Irish some time after the 6th or 7th century.

Are Am Eye

server down wrote: »

This may be well known to some but the river Avon ( of which there is more than one) is called the river Avon because the Romans asked some local in Britain what was the name of the river and he said "River?" in Brittonic and they wrote down what they thought he said, which sounded to them like avon. Or at least that is how it was later written down. Nobody was walking around with big brains back then.

Anyway the modern welsh (a language derived from Brittonic) for river is Afon, and of course the Irish for river is Abhainn. If the bh were pronounced like a V as it may have been in the past, you can see the similarity in sound to both the welsh and Avon.

Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Gaelic would all be close on the same branch of Indo-European Languages.

server down

This may be well known to some but the river Avon ( of which there is more than one) is called the river Avon because the Romans asked some local in Britain what was the name of the river and he said "River?" in Brittonic and they wrote down what they thought he said, which sounded to them like avon. Or at least that is how it was later written down. Nobody was walking around with big brains back then.

Anyway the modern welsh (a language derived from Brittonic) for river is Afon, and of course the Irish for river is Abhainn. If the bh were pronounced like a V as it may have been in the past, you can see the similarity in sound to both the welsh and Avon.

Are Am Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AIwaSD9Sco

Ipso

Of course there's Fingal, white/fair foreigner.

Chancer3001

Leixlip is from biking words too

Leix was a Salmon

Lip became leap

The place where the salmon leap

Realt Dearg Sec

Ipso wrote: »

On the Viking theme, Oxmantown is actually named after Vikings. Apparently the Oxman comes form the word Ostro meaning East which is what they called themselves. I always associated North/Norse with Vikings and not East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxmantown

A quick look at the names of the streets in the area around Stoneybatter is interesting in this regard: Sitric Road, Sigurd Road, Olaf Road and Viking Road, Ostman Place. I know the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Dublin volumes have a proper record of the names given to the city's streets down through the centuries, but I haven't got a copy to hand here, but I'd be interested to know how old those street names actually are.

Ipso

On the Viking theme, Oxmantown is actually named after Vikings. Apparently the Oxman comes form the word Ostro meaning East which is what they called themselves. I always associated North/Norse with Vikings and not East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxmantown

DJIMI TRARORE

Omackeral wrote: »

The term ''that really takes the biscuit'' stems from the pillaging days of the Vikings. When the brutes tore through villages up-ending and ransacking everything in their path, sympathetic neighbours would all rally around and leave a token for the heaviest hit victims, more often than not, with a batch of homemade bread or a type of sweet biscuit. Sometimes, the lowest of the low opportune thieves would come along and literally take the biscuit from the victims and that's where we get the term. I also made all of that up.

Thats pretty believable in fairness,but i am a little thick:):):):)

Ipso

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Fyffes had this one out with revenue. Basically they are importing bananas which aren't quite ripe and "processing" them to make them ripe. They argued that because of this process they are not a distributor, they are a manufacturer. Obviously there is a tax benefit to this. I hope the guy who figured it out is a wealthy man.

Yes, the ripening process is considered manufacturing for tax reasons.

https://www.charteredaccountants.ie/taxsource/1997/en/act/pub/0039/tb/sec0443-1-tb.html

Captain_Crash

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Did you know that many people have short memories?

Haha... I was actually going to say the gool ol' " I don't know if its been mentioned before" but decided against it lol

Well we all know now :cool:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

chakotha wrote: »

The pacific end of the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic end.

Captain_Crash wrote: »

The Atlantic lock in the Panama Canal is at its western end, and the Pacific lock is at its eastern end.

Did you know that many people have short memories?

StupidLikeAFox

Purple Mountain wrote: »

How does one manufacture a banana?

Fyffes had this one out with revenue. Basically they are importing bananas which aren't quite ripe and "processing" them to make them ripe. They argued that because of this process they are not a distributor, they are a manufacturer. Obviously there is a tax benefit to this. I hope the guy who figured it out is a wealthy man.

[Deleted User]

The term ''that really takes the biscuit'' stems from the pillaging days of the Vikings. When the brutes tore through villages up-ending and ransacking everything in their path, sympathetic neighbours would all rally around and leave a token for the heaviest hit victims, more often than not, with a batch of homemade bread or a type of sweet biscuit. Sometimes, the lowest of the low opportune thieves would come along and literally take the biscuit from the victims and that's where we get the term. I also made all of that up.

Captain_Crash

The Atlantic lock in the Panama Canal is at its western end, and the Pacific lock is at its eastern end.

Widdershins

Tigger wrote: »

native smative
there are 50 million white people in africa that arent technically native but they are still in africa

Fair enough...how many, roughly? In the wild?

Maybe I should have said there are no wild tigers native to Africa. I didn't know this (until recently)

Realt Dearg Sec

Purple Mountain wrote: »

How does one manufacture a banana?

Check out this SHOCKING documentary! Banana manufacturers HATE him...

Purple Mountain

Ipso wrote: »

I think technically it's the biggest manufacturer of bananas.
The pizza one is a good one.

How does one manufacture a banana?