mike carey

Good question, I logged out of RM and it still was inaccessible. Never seen that before.

Regional accents are not inomprehensible to other people in the UK. Anyone who cannot be understood widely would not be employed. The broadcasters know what they are doing.

That's one way of putting it. RP is still a thing, it's just not the only voice that is heard on the BBC. Bad grammar and enunciation are separate issues but accepting regional accents is an acceptance that they are a valid representation of the way British people speak. Sir Michael Parkinson never lost his Yorkshire accent and he was more authentic for keeping it. A homogenised American standard accent seems now to be more a requirement in the US than RP is in the UK. In this country, the ABC has gone from all-white and male presenters on radio and television, speaking in something close to RP to a diversity of voices and faces, and the ABC hasn't lost any of its heft as a serious broadcaster.

Nonya food is one of the delights of life.

Even if it is standard in a given version of English, I'm not sure that it can be called 'correct' rather than just 'standard', especially if other pronunciations are 'standard' in other versions of the language.

Try saying oo-ich quickly and see how that comes out.

An Irish drag queen. He alter ego Rory O'Neill usually has a less 'forced' enunciation. Her initial notoriety was brought about by a short speech she made at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She was later a prominent campaigner in the Irish equal marriage referendum.

It's not a separate syllable, it's more, as @bostonman said, an aspirated sound, as if you were starting to say an h sound and switching to the w sound before you finish the h.

The Oxford Dictionary site has it without any h sound at the front, and that's how it is spoken in Australian English. The initial h is often present in Scots and Irish usage, I've noticed it in particular in Panti Bliss' speech (her enunciation is usually somewhat exaggerated). Your question referred to the wh- question words, and while [hwile?] it applies to which, what, where and whither, I've never heard it used in who.

IIRC it was reported that she said it when they were being interviewed together, although I haven't seen the interview.

There is a reasonably outspoken conservative Australian senator whose wife was quoted as saying their marriage has been so successful because they are both in love with the same man.

Sorry, I thought for a moment about using the word, but remembered there had been a discussion here of words for those devices, so decided to use my words!!!

Noting @tassojunior's comments, and also the possibility that at FLL there may be gay attractions rather than gay resorts, FLL may be a good choice for a long weekend in Feb. PSP is a small airport and cheap flights may be harder to find, and if you are thinking of going there in April it may be better to chose somewhere else for February.

These sorts of contaminants can appear in first world water supply systems. In 1998, Sydney had an occurrence of cryptosporidium and giardia in the water supply. It's not clear where it came from, but possibly from cattle or sheep farms in the catchment areas. People were advised to boil water, public bubblers were turned off. There were no known cases of infections but it created a public emergency nevertheless, or more to the point a political emergency.

I would have put a smiley face on this, but that would have detracted from the the sadness that you had to say it.

Completely understand that a lakeside winter is one of the driving forces for your decision, and April doesn't answer that question! That said, if you can afford the trip along with whatever other travel you are undertaking, you shouldn't be concerned about your shyness. There are very social restaurant and poolside meetings, some part of the 'formal' agenda and some [as the international political meetings put it] in the 'margins', or just impromptu afternoons or evenings out. The two resorts I have stayed at (Canyon Club [cheaper and a little 'tired'] and Inndulge [more expensive and that shows]) have a free light breakfast served by the pool that is a great opportunity to meet other guests, and both of those two have a substantial number (up to 10 each) of forum members as guests for the weekend.

Yep, when QF started flying SYD-DFW they used a 744, that worked outbound but they had a technical stop in BNE on the return flight. 788/9 would work, they begin BNE-ORD with that equipment next year and already fly PER-LHR,

A delightful view of the Indian Ocean!

Qantas seems to have a few heavy routes where it uses the A380s. SYD/MEL to LAX, SIN, HKG, SYD to LHR and SYD to DFW. I suspect the pax like them. Going heavy on premium cabins may well keep them profitable.

Totally unrelated to where the thread has gone, this about whether the A380 will continue to fly in Qantas colours (spoiler: it will). https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/australian-fashion-food-and-design-feature-on-board-upgraded-qantas-a380-fleet/ The type seems to be continuing to fly with a number of carriers. A friend of mine is flying to London from the US in premium economy on a BA A380 next month

Hi @MrMattBig that's a level of detail I haven't seen anyone else give in here, but it does demonstrate that there is limited incentive for escorts to enter into exclusive arrangements be they 'sugar daddy' or a collective such as the OP suggested. I can't say I'm surprised at where you are in the financial stakes, and not everyone will be in your position, but the OP suggestion seems more like a path to polyamory rather than a business idea.

David Pocock, preparation ahead of Wallabies game vs Uruguay in Ōita (大分市) tomorrow.

No, it's a bacterium. Amoebae are a different life-form.

You can, if you go into a forum, at the top right (below the 'post thread' button), there's a 'Mark Read' button. Click on that and it will put up a dialogue box asking if you want to mark xxxx forum Read.

That it was posted in this forum should have been a clue. It's actually called KL in casual speech, in the same way that LA is used. But still not everyone knows that (not everyone in the US - I mean the United States (of America) - has even heard of Kuala Lumpur). I posted in another thread about references to HK not making any sense until I realised they were about Hells Kitchen.