Fed up with the usual way of defining the words that feature in the English language? We can help, courtesy of readers and writers ... Bellow (n): Underside (David Watts) Bid (n): Vertical bed (David Watts) Connoisseur (n): Loudmouthed convict...
Redefinitions
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The Abu Dhabi Week team provides this week’s collections of confused reinterpretations of the English language: Acquisition (n): Like the Inquisition but without questions (Tim Shulz) Bumble (n): Down-at-heel bovine (Simone Potter) Capacity (n):...
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Another batch of unimportant but entertaining alternatgives to the conventional definitions found in your dictionary of the English language. This week produced the usual good collection from Tim Shulz Breeze (n): More than one French cheese...
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More possibly invaluable but probably useless alternatives to the conventional definitions in your dictionary of the English language. This week produced a small batch, including these: Archangel (n): heavenly rainbow (Simone Potter) Recourse (v):...
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There are tons of family fun on offer in Abu Dhabi. Check out these venues Cooking class at Al Raha Beach Hotel: Let the kids learn safety tips and get their hands dirty at the same time—without destroying your own kitchen. Good for everything...
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In an attempt to create diversions from the conventional English language dictionary, here are yet more giggle inducing (in Abu Dhabi Week towers at least) plays on words from readers, team members and the classic BBC radio show alike. Anticlimax...
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More possibly invaluable but probably useless diversions from the conventional dictionary of the English language, courtesy of our readers. Here’s a good half-dozen from a newish reader, Rashmi R: Discard (n): to eliminate someone from your...
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After a brief pause last week, we’re able to bring you another fine collection of potential revisions for the dictionary of the English language with contributions from readers and inspiration from the team at the seminal British radio show I’m...
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Another good crop of contributions to our ongoing lexicographical reorientations for the English language, with the help of readers and inspiration from the I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue team. Bacteria (n): The area towards the back of a café...
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Our ongoing project to add to the sum of linguistic extravagance that is the English language with the help of readers and inspiration from the I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue team continues apace. Expectorant (n): Argument in the antenatal room ...
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