She sang on the regional opera circuit in Germany and was regarded as “quite famous” around Baden-Wuerttemberg.

FORMER Army commanders have reacted angrily to plans for some of Britain's most famous regiments to be transferred into "Alex Salmond's home guard".

Pythagorean theorem: 24 words. Archimedes' Principle: 67 words. The 10 Commandments: 179 words. The Gettysburg address: 286 words. The US Declaration of Independence : 1,300 words. The US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: 7,818 words. EU regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.   Let's hope the cabbage tastes really good and worth every one of those words

Yesterday Joe (cy) Borg, the portly Maltese who is the Commissar for fisheries made a speech to the Fisheries Committee of the Parliament. He waffled on at length about this and that and then came up with this, The most famous words contained in our proposal must be the words "recreational fishing". In some Member States our proposals in this regard have been misinterpreted alarming citizens that ...

Did you see that words associated with Christianity, the monarchy and British history have been dropped from a leading dictionary for children? "Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog", "broadband" and "celebrity". Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been ...

Our leaders have lost the rhetorical arts at the very moment when I most need to hear a speech of convincing reassurance Words, words, words. We hear them these days by the million, in communiques, minutes, memorandums, press releases. They are a running commentary on disaster. Yet as they are about economics they carry no meaning for most people. So why bother? The answer is that the words do mat...

"The world famous French chef, Raymond Blanc" has been given an honorary OBE, which is nice. As I have noted before, describing someone as famous is a bit silly, as either the reader knows who the person is in which case 'famous' is redundant or the reader does not and etc etc. Even I can't work up any degree of outrage about that this time, but it is a big F for Fail for the DCMS w...

People who kill their partners after years of abuse would be able to use a new defence that they had acted in response to extreme "words and conduct", under government plans to change the law on murder

At first this may seem a facetious question, but I can see a scenario where they can and it all depends on Gordon's old brief - the economy. There could still be a deus ex machina in the form of a major conservative scandal, but weathering the Wintertons and Boris' ill judged appointments probably means nothing too big is waiting. (Famous Last Words).If towards the end of the year some stability h...

MummyLongLegs When Frankie uttered these famous words it was a cue. A hint that even though he appeared to be discussing/taking something very, very seriously, it was expected that you, the punter, should look a little deeper, chuckle at the humour that was thrown your way and wait patiently for the punchline. His true art was to play with