miercuri, 27 ianuarie 2010

Did you know?

Prof. Drd. Daniela Angelica Dorobanţu

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation: an independent radio broadcasting paid by the British government since 1927.

The Beatles: famous British pop music popular in the 60s.

Big Ben: the clock in the tower of the British Houses of Parliament.

Cricket: one of the three English national sports for men, (football and rugby) but nowadays women play them too.

Fahrenheit: a scale for measuring temperature invented by the German scientist, Gabriel Fahrenheit. The freezing point is 32.

GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Standard time in England The 00 meridian passes through Greenwich in South east London and is considered as a base for other time zones in the world.

Loch Ness Monster: a large animal supposed to live in loch (Gaelic lake) Ness in Scotland.

Mac/Mc: Scottish prefix for names meaning son of.

O': specific for Irish family names, such as O'Malley, O'Grady, etc. It means "son of".

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