Mid 17th century: from modern Latin electricus, from Latin electrum 'amber', from Greek ēlektron (because rubbing amber causes electrostatic phenomena).
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
When you solve something you have found a solution and when you dissolve Parliament it is a dissolution. So why is it that when you dissolve salt in water you form a solution and not a dissolution?
Denis Norden, quoted in my diary...
`It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.'
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)