Cornish pasting
Malcolm Bell, the chief executive of VisitCornwall, complained in an online interview about ‘emmets’ – an emmet being a derogatory word for an outsider, derived from a local dialect word for ‘ants’. Some more insults in Cornish dialect: Bimper, a peeping Tom; Dobeck, a fool; Gocki, stupid; Piggy-whidden, a weakling; Squallyass, a crybaby; Janjansy, a fibber; Timdoodle, a fool; Tuss, an offensive person.
Team building
Ten players in Qatar’s World Cup squad were born outside the country. Only 12% of Qatar’s population are native Qataris. Where are the rest of its citizens from?
India 22%
Bangladesh 13%
Nepal 13%
Egypt 9%
Philippines 7%
Pakistan 5%
Sri Lanka 4%
Sudan 1.9%
Syria 1.7%
Jordan 1.6%
Dry spell
How much alcohol is (officially) consumed in Qatar? The average Qatari consumes 0.96 litres of alcohol per year, giving it the 151st consumption of any country.
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