Starmer: An Myghtern yw marow. Re vewo an Myghtern a'n North!

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Link to previous thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5541352-thread-51-starmer-pedo-mellon-a-minno?page=10&reply=153095543

Nope. Eekhoorn = Squirrel in Dutch
Eenhoorn = Unicorn in Dutch.

This is why DD1 complains that it isn't a real language. That, and the Dutch word for peanut butter.

Which is??

Pindakaas. That is to say, peanut cheese. Which it manifestly is not, but back in the day there was a trades descriptions dispute that ended in a decision that the term 'butter' was only to be used for actual dairy products. Go figure. My DC do however like Wasbeer (raccoon, literally 'bear') and Wasknijper (clothes peg, literally 'laundry pincher').

Peanut cheese. Bleurghhh.

I know, but peanut satay sauce is delicious.

Dutch is a pain in the arse language. No logic, no sense, no reason and spelling rules from Hell. But funny in places.

Eekhoorn is easy when you remember it sounds like acorn.

Apart from that every vaguely exptic animal in the Netherlands is a type of horse.
Slow horse
Nile horse
Lazy horse

Etc

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/27/gb-news-pundit-matthew-torbitt-charged-fraud-labour-adviser

Indeed.

And what is the Durch for acorn?

Eikel.

with a short ei, not a long ij or the Greek y

also used as slang

Should we let people know what it is slang for?

Also 'slang' is the Dutch word for 'Snake' (as in the Afrikaans 'boomslang')

And 'Hose', I used the tuinslang this evening

I think we should let them find out about 'eikel' by themselves, a little challenge

Challenge accepted followed by a snigger 🤭

I don't need telling that one 🤭

ETA learnt it by watching a forrin drama, of course.

That's like the German.

Peanut cheese?
Mother of God....😖😲

Swahili calls yogurt maziwa llala- sleepy milk

Sorry I have been absent and posted no tax. Here is the timid fellla having a look at the outside world.
I am completely floored by this heat and have spent most of the week with frozen tea towels on my head 🥵 Not very flattering as I look like an overgrown shepherded in a primary school nativity BUT frozen tea towels are my new best friend.
Did anybody watch QT yesterday? I think Zia
Yusuf was just awful. I admit I am not a fan of Reform but his communication style is so combative.

I've only seen the clip where he essentially admitted he tried to stand for Reform but wasn't selected 😂

Pinda cheese on a butter ham

What a sweetheart 😻 There's a whole subreddit for those "airplane" ears.

Happy (belated) birthday littledrummer

The whole thing is worth a watch. It was delicious. I suspect he’ll be keeping as low a profile as Farage now.

How many times has he been on QT now? It seems as though he is on every month.

He didn't "admit" it. He was forced into a corner where he could not deny it. Which make for much better viewing.

For a minute, QT looked very hostile to Reform. By which I mean they got the same forensic treatment everyone should get equally.

There definitely seems to be something in the water. I can' move for clickbait about Reform turning on Farage. It's odd that a piddling £5,000,000 could have caused such a stir.