Ring of untruth – Frank McNally on how the Irish language gave ‘phoney’ to English

It was the great New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge (1894 – 1979) who first tumbled on a connection with fáinne, ...
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Christmas Songs That Once Ruled the Billboard Charts

There was a December when we didn’t scroll for music. We just turned on the radio and let the station decide. Billboard told the stations what people were buying and requesting, so when a Christmas ...