Saturday, 20 August 2011

7 words/phrases which are incorrect in common English usage

  1. Ciabattas - The plural is Ciabatte
  2. Aquariums - The Latin plural is Aquaria
  3. Salsa sauce - Salsa is Spanish for sauce
  4. A piece of data - Data is the plural form of datum
  5. 1 Pinini, 2 Pininis - Pinini is already the plural form, with Pinino the singular
  6. Agendas - As agenda is Latin for 'Things to be done' you cannot pluralize it
  7. Rhinoceri/Rhinoceruses - The Latin plural is Rhinocerontes

Friday, 19 August 2011

7 characters played by Vincent Price

  1. King Charles II - Hudson's Bay
  2. Cardinal Richelieu - The Three Musketeers
  3. Professor Henry Jarrod - House of Wax
  4. Roderick Usher - The Fall of the House of Usher
  5. Dr. Erasmus Craven - The Raven
  6. Felix Manderville - House of a Thousand Dolls
  7. The Inventor - Edward Scissorhands

Thursday, 18 August 2011

7 Linux landmarks

  1. April 1991 - Linus Torvalds began working on his own operating system kernel.
  2. May 1992 - The first distribution of Linux, Softlanding Linux, is shipped.
  3. July 1993 - Slackware Linux, the first commercial Linux is launched.
  4. March 1994 - Linus Torvalds releases kernel versioon 1.0
  5. November 1998 - Microsoft lawyers present a box of Red Hat Linux at its antitust lawsuit, as evidence that Windows did not represent a monopoly on the OS market
  6. October 2004 - Canonical release Ubuntu 4.1 (Warty Warthog) with a six-month release cycle
  7. November 2007 - The Open Handset Alliance announces a preview version and SDK of Android

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

7 ingredients of Tiger Balm

  1. Menthol
  2. Peppermint Oil
  3. Camphor
  4. Cajuput Oil
  5. Clove Oil
  6. Cassia Oil
  7. NH3 Solution (Ammonia)

Monday, 15 August 2011

7 questions we got right in this week's University Challenge

  1. Croydon
  2. Harpies
  3. Mead
  4. Argon
  5. Feather
  6. Catherine Parr
  7. David Cameron - Benny Hill