dwazou@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoLord Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, a UK hereditary lawmaker, faces questions over expenses claim. www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkLord Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, a UK hereditary lawmaker, faces questions over expenses claim. www.theguardian.comdwazou@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squaredefunct_punk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 day agoThe single most British headline I’ve ever read
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoEven over here, that’s an excessive number of names. Every name you have past 3 is pretty much a chance of toff multiplier
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day ago Lord Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot Forget Toff, he’s giving former UN Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali a run for his money (you can make that phrase rhyme if your pronounce it right)
minus-squareN0MAD@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 hours agoWe wanna say big up yourself, Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali. Respect. - Ali G
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoOn that note, Picasso’s full name is quite impressive Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 hours agoSpanish names are different because they’re familial. Most of this guy’s names are given. Strictly speaking, in the Anglosphere, only the final name is familial (though it may rarely have spaces in it), the rest are given.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoPicasso is cool because Guernica Also his part in the Catalan independence movement
The single most British headline I’ve ever read
Even over here, that’s an excessive number of names.
Every name you have past 3 is pretty much a chance of toff multiplier
Forget Toff, he’s giving former UN Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali a run for his money (you can make that phrase rhyme if your pronounce it right)
We wanna say big up yourself, Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali. Respect. - Ali G
On that note, Picasso’s full name is quite impressive
Spanish names are different because they’re familial. Most of this guy’s names are given. Strictly speaking, in the Anglosphere, only the final name is familial (though it may rarely have spaces in it), the rest are given.
Picasso is cool because Guernica
Also his part in the Catalan independence movement