Slow reeds

[Pipemajor]

Of course, to confuse matters, in the world of organic chemistry, "benzene" is not what runs your motor car, it is the parent molecule of a large family of organic compounds called the "aromatics".

Would that be why the French call it "essence"

 

[Ffingers]

Would that be why the French call it "essence"

"Essence" meaning "spirit" as in the old English name "Motor Spirit" for petrol/gasoline/etc.

The pathways of the evolution of languages is a tortuous one.

My language learning began in the 1940s which makes teenage chatter as incomprehensible to me as John Bunyans 17th.century writing in his "Pilgrims Progress".

 

[Pipemajor]

My language learning began in the 1940s which makes teenage chatter as incomprehensible to me as John Bunyans 17th.century writing in his "Pilgrims Progress".

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