Language

A heavy snowstorm closed the schools in one town. When the children returned to school a few days later, one grade school teacher asked her students whether they had used the time away from school constructively. "I sure did, teacher," one little girl replied. "I just prayed for more snow."

Pussyfoot = To move on doing something to cautiously

Archaic word

peize = balance, weigh

Brewer's Phrase & Fable

U.S = The United States of North America.

Difficult words

psychotheism - n. belief in pure spirituality of God.

Limerick

There was a young girl of Samoa, Who plugged up her cunt with a boa. This strange contraceptive Was very deceptive To all but the spermatozoa.

Knowledge

Chabas, Françoisa French Egyptologist, born in Briançon; his works have contributed much to elucidate the history of the invasion and repulsion of the Hyksos in Egypt (1817-1882).

Quote

Equality by Linda Grant - The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

Tongue twister

Preshrunk silk shirts

Unusual word

cambist = person skilled in the science of financial exchange