ChrisW wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:25 pm
You appear to have very little use for the J key
I was surprised to learn J is the second least used letter in the English language!
It has all the popularity of Q with none of the charm.
Used to do a word game in one of the newspapers with my dad - the alpha puzzle I think? No clues, just guessing letters by frequency or pattern. J almost always came last which he liked as it was my mum's initial.
I was surprised to learn J is the second least used letter in the English language!
It has all the popularity of Q with none of the charm.
'Cos the Romans didn't have a 'J'.
Didn't have 'U' or 'W' either but they get more use than poor old 'J'.
The J would get plenty of use in Wales. Jones is the most common Welsh surname, even though there is no J in the Welsh alphabet
Odd innit? Apparently the English version is from 'son of John' and the Welsh version evolved from 'son of Iowan' or similar. Wonder if John evolved from one of the older Welsh names too?
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Druid wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:12 pm
The J would get plenty of use in Wales. Jones is the most common Welsh surname, even though there is no J in the Welsh alphabet
Odd innit? Apparently the English version is from 'son of John' and the Welsh version evolved from 'son of Iowan' or similar. Wonder if John evolved from one of the older Welsh names too?
The Welsh version of John is Ioan, Ieuan or Siôn. I have no idea about the etymology of the names, the origins of Welsh surnames is quite interesting but probably takes a watch thread too far off topic
I've been watching tbis blokes Youtube output for a while now and quite like it, he's especially good at polishing the scratches out of the cases which takes very experienced hand to eye coordination.
Every once in a while his young kid comes into the room and asks kid questions but all in all I reckon its a pretty chilled setup.
demographic wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:37 pm
I've been watching tbis blokes Youtube output for a while now and quite like it, he's especially good at polishing the scratches out of the cases which takes very experienced hand to eye coordination.
Every once in a while his young kid comes into the room and asks kid questions but all in all I reckon its a pretty chilled setup.
I wonder how much that cost!
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