Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Abolition

In 1865, the USA abolished slavery.

In 1971, Canada officially abolished nuclear weapons.

In 1973, Iceland abolished the letter z.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Irish accents

This morning on The Bear (a local radio station), Yukon Jack went on a rant complaining about fake Irish accents. (To hear it, go to the Yukon's Big Yap page and listen to the March 17 thing. But at the time of writing, it's not posted yet.)

This got me thinking. I wonder if St. Patrick could do a good Irish accent. Because he wasn't Irish either.