Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Macca]

No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..

I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays

[Macca]

was once known as ligorno; think thats where leghorn came from

yes. It's still the most amusing English bastardization of a place-name though.

[Barry]

I remember fifties/sixties Soviet cameras marked with the 'Kiev' brand. Quite liked them.

Yes, they were modelled on the early German Contax designs. I used to have a Russian 'Fed 3', which was based on the German Leica.

[Barry]

I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays

Which part: Russian, Polish or Lithuanian?

[Macca]

You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

[struth]

You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

60's.. yes its kept alive as folk liked it as a place and be damned to the bureaucrats.. more power to them

[walpurgis]

You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

I still use it.

[walpurgis]

all you'll get is a load of hot air and empty rhetoric from Boris and the rest

I was right. Loads of indignant waffle from House of Commons. Nothing they can do though, any sanctions will be maneuvered around by Russia.

Moldova may well be on Putin's wish list after Ukraine. After that, we need to watch what the US may do if Lithuania are threatened. They are NATO! Could go very badly indeed.

[Alex_UK]

Interesting that in the PM’s statement to MP’s when outlining the UK’s response he said “eventually Military”

I am still convinced we’re living in some sort of computer simulation - on the day that most COVID restrictions are dropped, the Third World War starts...

And I never knew that Middlesex wasn’t actually a thing since before I was born!

I give up, time for wine.

[Pigmy Pony]

I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.

Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?

Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”

or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”

Thanks Martin, I'll take that and use it whenever possible!