Discussion Groups / British English / July 2005

Sorry to bother you again.
In The Netherlands we have Coffee and Coffee 'wrong'
The later is Coffee with much to much hot milk poured in it.
Is there an English name for such a coffee? No, not Capuccino!

Good evening,
A question from the French equivalent of this newsgroup
(news:fr.lettres.langue.francaise):
If you trip on an unknown word when reading an original

Hi,all!
Could sb. tell me what "a pox on the lot of you" means?
I am non-English speaker.
I find it while reading an online English novel.Since I can not find it in a

There are a number of expressions in English with the word 'Dutch''.
Some of them have a neutral meaning (e.g. Dutch doors} whereas other
expressions heve a negative meaning, e.g.'Dutch courage' / 'to talk like
a Dutch uncle'.

In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
Tia

On "Midweek" (BBC Radio 4)Brian Lavery, Curator of Naval History at the
National Maritime Museum in Greenwich said that the phrase "line
manager" originated in the whaling industry, where such a person was
responsible for supervising the line securing the harpoon to the

"No offence, but you make the village idiot seem intelligent."
"I don't mean to be rude, but you are the ugliest person I have ever seen."
It is common practice to preface insults with phrases such as "No offence"
as if they somehow lessen the magnitude of the insult, making it ...

I have another question, but I'm not sure whether this is the right
group to ask it. If it isn't , please tell me.
Here is my question:
There are not so many words of Dutch origin in the English language.