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Chandos.
@chandos64.bsky.social
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Law, housing, leaseholds, property valuation, more law, and Oxford commas.

Incompetent but enthusiastic linguist. European. Lagomorphs, bees, tea & cake.
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chandos64.bsky.social
I don't anticipate English speakers making any change. Also having a menu item of the same name won't help.

We refer to Germany as such not Deutschland & several other languages have their own label (Tyskland, Allemagne etc)

I do think Sweden sounds better in Swedish tho': Sverige (pron Sverry-ah)
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
chandos64.bsky.social
Can DM if you FB.
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
chandos64.bsky.social
There's some margin for opinion I believe, but northern types might pronounce it Rye-dolsh
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
chandos64.bsky.social
Rhymes with Featherstonehaugh but otherwise pronounced like Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften.

HTH.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
chandos64.bsky.social
May I recommend my go-to earworm cure?

The only down side is that you might find yourself marching around the house for a few days. Works for me tho'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp86...
1 Hour of The Greatest Marches From The German Empire (1871-1918)
YouTube video by MrYank
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
chandos64.bsky.social
Other than Nempnett Thrubwell that’s quite correct.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
chandos64.bsky.social
Definitive roast beef.

(Still waiting on that Sunday lunch invitation. Just saying.)
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
chandos64.bsky.social
See the Pyramids, you say?

Compromise is the key to contentment.

Also, Birkenhead is lovely this time of year*

(* I may be wrong on both counts)
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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And this is spot on. No other political figure or party gets so little scrutiny. And it’s not like there isn’t a track record…
Corruption, Russia-links, Trump-christofascist-links, Brexit, racism, total incompetence in Reform-run councils…
A dangerous clowncar revving up to drive us into the wall.
Instead, what we are starting to see is an attempt to sanitise and cleanse Farage ahead of his potential rise to the premiership. We can see this in the many pieces, from the likes of Nick Robinson, to the BBC, trying to portray Farage and his party as being a "serious" prospect for high office, as opposed to the disastrous joke a Reform Government would actually be. You can see this also in the relative lack of media interest in what Reform is already doing in local Government. Just like Johnson, who was only ever covered by the national media from the framing of his personality-based rivalry with his old Etonian school friend, rather than what he was actually doing in London, so too is the substance of what Farage's party is already up to in office being similarly glossed over. The result is that by the time that we get to the next general election, there is unlikely to have been much scrutiny, aside from by a small number of independent publications like Byline Times, of what the reality of a Reform Government would actually look like.
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM