Discussion Groups / British English / October 2005

Hello and thanks everybody for your attention.
I am translating a chapter from Ciaran Carson's "Last night's Fun" into
Italian, and I am having some trouble with this passage:"though someone
has elbowed up to the tv-sized serving-hatch and is trying to order a

bonjour
comment traduire juriste en anglais
merci

Does blackmail involve threats to expose the victim, or is it just a
synonym for "extortion"?
Some animal-rights protestors have been charged with conspiracy to
blackmail the owners of a farm which breeds guinea-pigs for the purpose

Hello to everyone,
I'd really appreicate it if someone could tell me what is the one
english word to describe the agricultural land owned by the church, and
surrounding it, in medieval Europe. However, I do not mean the