The transformation of Randwick Racecourse for the World Youth Day event next weekend is well under way. You'd just about have never thought it was a horse racing track such are the changes that are taking place. Workers have spent most of today attaching this fabric signage to the racecourse boundary fences along Alison Road.... Read full entry
World Youth Day Randwick Racecourse photos
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 11 July, 2008 to the events subset
The annoying ambiguousness of the word ANNOY
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 to the comment subset
The eleventh commandment has just been handed down, thou shalt not annoy pilgrims attending World Youth Day events in Sydney this July. Whatever "annoy" actually means... Linguistics expert Nick Riemer, from the University of Sydney, said the word annoy had its origins in the French word for annoyance - ennui. The Oxford Dictionary defines 'annoy' as causing "slight anger or mental distress'', but Dr Riemer said the word ... Read full entry
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