Seize and squeeze

Seize and squeeze

When it comes to Latin, there are not many of us around who learned it at school! Yet we are all still surrounded by English words that have Latin roots while in certain professions like law there are many phrases that are quoted in Latin. As we have commented on...
MYTHING THE POINT

MYTHING THE POINT

SOME say that a goldfish has a memory of three seconds. We are told that we must drink eight glasses of water a day. In sport, we are told that the quarterback in American football is the most important player; an athlete must specialize in the sport as early as...
TALKING A GOOD GAME  

TALKING A GOOD GAME  

There are good sports commentators and there are bad sports commentators. By “bad”, we mean  those who say the obvious or indeed opposite of what is meant. One athletics commentator stated  that, “There’s going to be a real ding-dong when the...
GO ALL  

GO ALL  

“I swear you will never see anything like this again!” Those words, spoken with deep passion over  and transmitted round the world ten years ago by a football commentator, will be familiar to some  readers; indeed, for many, the words will be deeply embedded...
SMALL GAME  

SMALL GAME  

Everyone loves to talk about and see the Big Five of elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhinoceros –  there is an excitement, a danger, a sense of awe about doing so that captures the heart and soul of  us all. In thinking thus, we are often inclined to...