Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
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Ashok Kumar came home drunk on Saturday night and got into an argument with his wife, Rupesh Singh, a senior police officer in Ghaziabad city near the capital Delhi, told the BBC.
Sunaina, 55, was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to her head, but by then she had died, reports said.
Mr Kumar has confessed to his crime and now regrets his actions, Mr Singh said.
Wait - is Singh the policeman, not the wife?
Mr. Kumar - don't expect dinner on time tomorrow, either.
Typically, male Sikhs have the surname Singh (="lion"), while female Sikhs take the surname Kaur (="princess").
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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s1m0n wrote:Typically, male Sikhs have the surname Singh (="lion"), while female Sikhs take the surname Kaur (="princess").
Thank you for this information, which no one in all my years attempted to teach me. Perhaps they shouldn't marry, being different species. Now we know what symbols to put on the rest room doors. I suppose as the Lion is sometimes referred to as the King of the Jungle, we have a King and a Princess, both royalty of a sort.
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
s1m0n wrote:Typically, male Sikhs have the surname Singh (="lion"), while female Sikhs take the surname Kaur (="princess").
Thank you for this information, which no one in all my years attempted to teach me. Perhaps they shouldn't marry, being different species. Now we know what symbols to put on the rest room doors. I suppose as the Lion is sometimes referred to as the King of the Jungle, we have a King and a Princess, both royalty of a sort.
When my friends Jasbir Singh and Geeta Kaur had their fourth child, the midwife said to Mrs Kaur, "Isn't it about time you two got married?"
benhall.1 wrote:
When my friends Jasbir Singh and Geeta Kaur had their fourth child, the midwife said to Mrs Kaur, "Isn't it about time you two got married?"
I would have thought that on the other side of the pond, they'd be more used to wives not taking their husbands' last names. It frustrates me that in the US, some things are just more difficult because my wife doesn't share my last name. She carries a copy of our marriage certificate lest something come up that requires her to prove we're married.
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
benhall.1 wrote:
When my friends Jasbir Singh and Geeta Kaur had their fourth child, the midwife said to Mrs Kaur, "Isn't it about time you two got married?"
I would have thought that on the other side of the pond, they'd be more used to wives not taking their husbands' last names. It frustrates me that in the US, some things are just more difficult because my wife doesn't share my last name. She carries a copy of our marriage certificate lest something come up that requires her to prove we're married.
This was quite some while ago. 30 years? I probably should have mentioned that ...
Fluid ounces and mL are units of volume, not weight. I'm sure that at a major multinational, several people have to sign off on it before it goes to the printer and is pasted onto bottles; I'm surprised none of them caught it.
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
chas wrote:I glanced at the label of my shower gel and saw:
Net wt. 13.5 fl. oz. (400 mL)
Fluid ounces and mL are units of volume, not weight. I'm sure that at a major multinational, several people have to sign off on it before it goes to the printer and is pasted onto bottles; I'm surprised none of them caught it.
That's awful. That's exactly the sort of thing that has me puzzled for days, weeks, and sometimes months on end. Just for peace of mind, I'd have to throw that shower gel away.
chas wrote:I glanced at the label of my shower gel and saw:
Net wt. 13.5 fl. oz. (400 mL)
Fluid ounces and mL are units of volume, not weight. I'm sure that at a major multinational, several people have to sign off on it before it goes to the printer and is pasted onto bottles; I'm surprised none of them caught it.
That's awful. That's exactly the sort of thing that has me puzzled for days, weeks, and sometimes months on end. Just for peace of mind, I'd have to throw that shower gel away.
It makes the skin of the metrologist in me crawl, but I'm able to keep my professional and personal lives separate.
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
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You may well have said it in the preceding pages, but the ones that really bug me are when 'then' & 'than' are used in the wrong context. Often makes passages of text unreadable.
Keith.
Trying to do justice to my various musical instruments.