The "gopher" game

[Chesterton]

Banking

 

[lucypevensie]

melatonin

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Here be Dragons

 

[lucypevensie]

Electric eel

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Sleeping with the Fishes

 

[Chesterton]

Irreducible complexity

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Simplicity

 

[lucypevensie]

Mispronunciation

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Middle and Old English had extra letters we have now lost: the eth, wynn, yogh and thorn. They represented the th sound and the w. When printing came along, they used movable type that obviously lacked these letters, coming from the continent, so they substituted y for thorn and z for yogh. So this has lead to a lot of mispronounced names and creation of new words. The best examples are ye old shoppe, where the ye is really the; or Mackenzie or Menzies, which should really be said Mackengie and Mengies.

Ignorance

 

[lucypevensie]

Dentist appointment

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

The Funky History of George Washington's Fake Teeth

Valentine

 

[lucypevensie]

African violet

 

[Chesterton]

A good smelling flower.

A place in the sun

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

We had a plastic baby rattle with a smiling plastic sun, with all kinds of triangles and symbols around it. Needless to say, I promptly named it Inti, after the Incan sun god.

South America

 

[Chesterton]

Wall Street

 

[lucypevensie]

Jetlag

 

[Chesterton]

Did an image search for "jetlag", and this was near the top of the results. Haven't a clue, not a clue.

ETA: Further research indicates that apparently there's a European furniture company named Jetlag (makes perfect sense), and apparently this is furniture, or what hip Europeans consider furniture.

Furniture

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Carpool

 

[lucypevensie]

tourism

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Festival