Krazy Keltic or Silly Seltic?

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Ajax

A bit busy today, so I decided to write a post which I can do bit by bit. Apologies in advance if it looks like I’ve done it piecemeal but that would be because I have. I was thinking today about the word “Ajax”. Why? Well, my office postman is Dutch and football mad. He [...]

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Schadenfreude

This is when pleasure is derived from someone else’s misfortune. It’s German in origin (bet you didn’t guess that) and comes from the two words Schaden (harm) and Freude (joy). There is no comparable word in English – I guess we’re all just too nice – so we borrowed it “as is” from German.

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