says Baddingham. “Loo, Tony. Don’t be plebeian.” It is a joke with a point. No matter Baddingham’s wealth, success and knighthood, he is still not one of them. Yet new research ...

Lavatory or loo is much more acceptable. The non-upper classes stole a lot of words from the French language to try and sound like they had a higher social standing. "Pardon" is a classic example ...

The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard ...

But research now suggests older people with low blood pressure are at risk when lifting the loo seat - bending down can quickly to do so can cause disorientation, imbalance and lead to a ...

Even the Ger­man cham­pi­on from Lever­ku­sen isn’t quite hit­ting the same level as last sea­son. Ahead of the fourth ...

While zed in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet is written differently - and looks like a 3 - most Russians recognise Latin letters. Emily Ferris - Russia and Eurasia research fellow at the Royal ...

He was preceded in death by his mother Patricia (Zbacnik) Miller, father Gilbert Loo and his loving grandparents Mary and Louis Rogich. He is survived by Beth, his wife of 40 years, his children ...

The way our human ancestors left behind paraphernalia like their tools for us to learn about them, our successors will likely inherit a ton of trash on this planet from modern humans. Granted, we ...