Why do british people say "it reminds me of the hunt" ?
20 years ago in 1850 aliens from the moon invaded Britain and hunted every single chinchilla in the area this led to the great depression in 1949. nobody likes to talk about such tragedy. rest in peace grandpa :(
Is “Nigel” a good English name for an 18-year-old boy?
It's an existing name, so that's a start.“Good”, of course, is fairly subjective. I will say that at present, from a British perspective, it sounds quite dated, along with names like Kenneth or Elliot or Eustace.This is a difficulty often encountered when people from China attempt to pick an English name for themselves. (And it is specifically China, for some reason. Koreans and Japanese seem more happy to keep their native names.)One possibility would be to choose a name that sounds phonetically similar to your birth name, assuming that it wasn't “Nigel”. Alternatively, you can consult online lists of popular contemporary names for boys, by country (e.g. USA, or UK). Here's a link[1] to one such website; as you can see, “Nigel” isn't even in the top 100.Footnotes[1] The top 100 boys names for 2018
American and British Names?? very different?
I think Lady Moon has raised a few good points, Brits seem to go for a bit more classical names such as Elizabeth, Olivia, Emily etc. Very often they are of british or European origin. The americans on the other hand seem to be a bit more adventurous when it comes to babynames, using uncommon names and that are traditionally not used as names. Here are some american trends * Last names as first names: Recently we've can see a trend to use last names as first names, this is especially used for boys, but there are also some examples of girls "last names first names" for example are these on the top100list: Grayson, Carter, Parker, Branden, MacKenzie * Place names: Using place names as babynames for example as Jamaica, Dekota, Lousiana etc. *Objects: It seems to be an american trend to use names for things such as fruits, flowers etc. for example: Apple, Cherry, Candy, Cocoa, Cinnamon, Chess etc. * Descriptive words: Verbs, adjectives etc. are sometimes used as names, for example: Sparkles, Modesty, Patience, Happy etc. These trends are much more prominent in the states than in England, why is it like that? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that america is a melting pot of different nationalities so they have inherited different name traditions from all over the world, while the british seem to be more ruled by the traditional name traditions, rather choosing classical, older names while americans seem to be more daring when it comes to name choosing babynames, so yes I do think think its a difference between american and british names. Even if they have quite a few in common, and both countries has got english as their main language there are differences. For example are these names in the top 100 in the UK, but are rarely used in the US: FREYA POPPY IMOGEN MAISIE ROSIE NIAMH HARRIET
Do Brits like Nigel Farage? Was he the one who led the Brexit movement?
I am British and I do not like Nigel Farage.Mr Farage wants all of the power and none of the responsibility. He successfully campaigned for EU referendum despite his repeated failure to be elected by the British people into the UK parliament. After he got the Brexit result he wanted, he quit the leadership of EU taxpayer-funded UKIP party. He offers no Brexit plan and made no contribution to the Brexit negotiations.Mr Farage is a media opportunist. Mr Farage thrives on the oxygen of publicity. He holds the record for the most number of panel appearances on the BBC television programme Question Time. Only the television programme’s host appears more often. British people see him a lot on their television and have to listen to him.Mr Farage support campaigns which break British electoral laws. During the EU referendum campaign, Mr Farage supported Leave-EU, which broke the law and was fined £70,000 by the Electoral Commission which upholds our British democracy and protects British people.Mr Farage is an appalling elected British politician. He has the almost the worse parliamentary attendance record of any European MEPs. He has only attended one of the 42 committee meetings to which he was invited. His MEP salary was docked after he misspent our public funds. He is letting down British people.Mr Farage misleads the British people. Mr Farage accused the European Commission of being the sole arbiter of legislation in the European Union. Mr Farage is wrong. He said that the EU costs British people £55 million per day. Mr Farage is wrong.Mr Farage wants attention, power and money. But no responsibility.Here’s Nigel Farage telling his customary lies to British people in the European Parliament.Brexit supporters are invited to provide write answers unconditionally supporting Nigel Farage, rather than provided comments here.
What is the appeal of Nigel Farage?
The truth is, you don’t have to be particularly clever or charismatic to appeal to the far-right, misguided or the politically naïve (read stupid). The people who think he’s an “Alright bloke” are disaffected and find it impossible to understand the complexities of politics…and the European Union.He’s managed to convince people that ‘EU’ means ‘all things wrong with Great Britain’. People who lack understanding of just what happens in Brussels are able to fixate on a cadre of grey men who make up silly rules about bananas and cucumbers rather than what really happens in Brussels. Given that Farage is an elected member of the EU Parliament, his followers might have expected him to explain the processes to them, but, of course, his sole purpose for being there is as a disruptor, so he does little and nothing.He’s been compared to Trump and I think it’s a fitting description - he says whatever nonsense pops into his empty head and his followers lap it up, because they think he’s a ‘clever businessman, telling it like it is’…actually he’s a con-man. A clever person doesn’t think he’s a clever man, only stupid people are fooled by him. The appeal of him is that he appears to be cleverer than they are…and, to be fair, that doesn’t take much :)
What are some other names (like "Basil") that are popular with Brits but not with Americans?
Names that are common in the UK but not America might include some traditional Scottish, Welsh or Irish names. For example, I HAVE met at least one of the following:Alasdair, Owain, Huw, (pron Hee-oo) Angharad, Sian (pron Shahn), Iain, Angus, Ciaran, Liam, Mhairi, Siobhain, even a Tecwyn.But I’ve never in my 40 years of existence met a “Basil” or a “Nigel” or any of the other names that some Americans might think are “British” names. Whereas I know quite a lot of Garys or Gavins or Dans.I’m suddenly reminded of an episode of Sex in the City where they met a Scottish guy who obviously in a no way racist fashion was depicted as an incomprehensible alcoholic in a kilt and the writers decided that “Caleb” would be a really, really Scottish name to give him, causing several million Scots to simultaneously exclaim WTF??! To me it’s a name that sounds a lot more Arkansas than Aberdeen, put it that way. (Not that I’m saying the other names like “Basil” are very Arkansas type names either, just that the American media has some strange ideas about this kind of thing).Addendum: Alright, maybe there are more Nigels out there than I thought and I was probably just showing some Scottish bias cos it’s a name rarely encountered in Lanarkshire, let’s face it. However, it seems that only 9 boys were christened Nigel in last year compared to about 800 Calebs in England and Wales! Who knew?To put Nigel in context its less common than some hardcore Welsh names like Aneurin which has 32 mentions, Taliesin (11) or some decidedly non-traditional names the Game of Thrones-tastic Tyrion which has 11!It turns out that Nigel is in fact a form of the Irish Niall, like the legendary king Niall of the Nine Hostages, and therefore also a cognate of the Icelandic Saga hero Njall. Nigel of the Nine Hostages and The Saga of Burnt Nigel somehow create a completely different mental image to me than the originals.But aye, it seems that Nigel and Caleb weren’t the best examples to pick!