tintin is pronounced tin tan in Japanese as tintin pronounced chin chin in Japanese means *****.
For our younger viewers tintin is a popular cartoon character
edit the word that is starred out would be called boaby in Scottish.
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tintin is pronounced tin tan in Japanese as tintin pronounced chin chin in Japanese means *****.
For our younger viewers tintin is a popular cartoon character
edit the word that is starred out would be called boaby in Scottish.
Danger mouse in Gaelic is "Cunnart luchag" but the remake in that language couldn't be called that as he has the initials DM on his chest.
They randomly chose the name Donny Murdo instead.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5hII715_s
Ha ha. I heard another teuchter related fact the other day. The last 37 inhabitants of the island of St Kilda agreed to relocate to the main land as they were all provided with jobs in the forestry commission. This was despite the fact they had never seen a tree as St Kilda doesn't have any trees.
Halitosis was a name invented by the makers of listerine to give a name to bad breath in order to sell their product.
The vast majority of clocks and watches that use Roman numerals show the number 4 as IIII rather than IV.
Something to do with it being easier to cast twenty Is and four each of Vs and Xs rather than seventeen Is, five Vs and four Xs.
There is more nutrients in the cardboard box packaging of cornflakes than the cornflakes themselves (or something like that)
IIRC one of the clock faces of Register House, facing West along Princes Street, has 2 no. XIIs.
Talking about numerals and this sort of thing, maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong here.
In engravings you often see the letter "U" depicted as a "V" e.g. COLVMBVS.
I was told it was to make the engraver's job easier as it's difficult to engrave on a curve.
That's fair enough. But, why then is an "O" not a square?
Solved (Google is great):
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-V-once-used-as-U
Bookies always round the odds down to the lowest common denominator (i.e. 3/1 not 6/2)... apart from 6/4 and 4/6... and I've no idea why. :greengrin
The above points on V instead of U are interesting - I've noticed "Edinbvrgh" a few times before!