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13:10 UK time, Friday, 30 December 2011
Random Stat tells us 74% of Brits mime or make up the words to Auld Lang Syne.
Indeed. A straw poll of one tells me the most common words remembered are "for the sake of auld lang syne", with the first line "should old acquaintance be forgot" being the other most common line remembered. The lah lah lahing is usually jolly good fun though.
Kay, London, UK
Re "cows have best friends" in : Er, ALL herd animals have friends (and enemies), it's part of being a sociable animal and should be obvious to a social animal like ourselves.
C Davies, Llanfair Caereinion, UK
Cows have 99 problems but no friends ain't one?
CougarJacques
If is true
Then all I can say is Eew
Though the thought makes me queasy
The solution is easy
Just don't take your phone to the loo.
My most humble apologies, Happy New Year!
Annie Bieber, Shingletown, CA, US
Re As Samoa have done it before I imagine they'll manage again...
Malcolm Rees
In Katie Price impersonator admits Lincolnshire bank fraud, we are told it includes a photo of Katie Price. But how do we know it's not a photo of her impersonator?
Clare, Aylesbury, UK
Mind-reading, tablets and TV are tech picks for 2012 - is there an English translation of this article available?
Chris, United Kingdom
If charging interest is a sin, could we not say that paying interest is a penance? It would certainly suit me.
Diane, Sutton
Hardly anybody pronounces the three consonant phonemes in "sixth" as they don't really trip off the tongue, and slow us down when we speak (Monday letters). The plural "sixths" is the only modern English word to end with a four-consonant cluster, so I see no reason to be snobbish about the pronunciation.
Andy Hill
Re Becca's calf born in the barn on Christmas morning (Monday letters) - perhaps one of these names would suit? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen. She could say she was adopted.
Diane, Sutton
How about "Barney"?
Martin, Upstate NY, US
Thanks for another year of great reading on peoples, places and all creatures great and small on our little planet. You guys rock.
Fatima, Boston, MA, US
Monitor note: *blushes*
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