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I don't know what's going on here, but for days my post followed curlingfan11's question in my view of the thread. Today, I got notification that radicalmm had posted twice after curlingfan11 had given the ding -- yet one of his now appears before my reply and the other after; and both before curlingfan11's :huh:

 

I'll set the next question on the basis that one of radicalmm's posts gave the ding to me -- and hope that I'm not stepping on someone's toes!

 

Continuing with the musical theme: Christian Fredrick Martin, Bob Taylor, Orville Gibson and Clarence Leonidas Fender are all famous for the same thing. For the ding, what is that thing?

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I don't know what's going on here, but for days my post followed curlingfan11's question in my view of the thread. Today, I got notification that radicalmm had posted twice after curlingfan11 had given the ding -- yet one of his now appears before my reply and the other after; and both before curlingfan11's :huh:

 

I'll set the next question on the basis that one of radicalmm's posts gave the ding to me -- and hope that I'm not stepping on someone's toes!

 

Continuing with the musical theme: Christian Fredrick Martin, Bob Taylor, Orville Gibson and Clarence Leonidas Fender are all famous for the same thing. For the ding, what is that thing?

 

When I first posted it said that my post need to be reviewed first

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Since we're asked to find the languages most spoken rather than the languages most common as 'first language', English and Mandarin have to be the top two. The next is probably Hindi (India is the most dense large country). We now have the empire languages: Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French and Russian. Spanish almost certainly is there as it's spoken in most of Southern America as well as being a second language in much of Europe. I'll go for Russian as the last simply because the USSR is the most recent large ex-empire.

 

So, English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Russian.

 

Edited to add: one day I'll learn to post a synopsis first and edit later!

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@speakers-corner: I thought that each dialect of Arabic was its own language -- similar to the situation in Scandinavia (but I could be wrong!) Certainly the Islamic empire was vast, but it was also a long time ago and most of it has had the time to switch to other languages and/or for regional dialects to evolve into full-fledged languages in their own right?

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That could be said of the Chinese language. Just a thought.

Anyway have a nice evening. Im off to bed.

@speakers-corner: FWIW, that's why I wrote "Mandarin" rather than "Chinese". AFAICT, Mandarin is a common, Imperial language with several dialects rather than a set of languages. Whereas both Chinese and Arabic are language sets (quick Google after the fact shows that Chinese is a macrolanguage comprising over a dozen distinct, individual languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) and Arabic is a macrolanguage comprising about a dozen and a half distinct, individual languages). So both are like "Scandinavian" -- and we consider Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish to be separate languages even though, like Chinese and Arabic, they have many similarities and share the same root.

 

That said, I'm in this thread to learn and the question setter is always right. You have the ding, and I look forward to your next question!

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Many thanks.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth has pennant number R08 and HMS Prince of Wales has pennant number R09. For the ding, what were the previous UK warships to carry those pennant numbers?

 

If there is a 'clue' in the fact that the current holders are/will be Aircraft carriers, I'll go for Ark Royal and Illustrious

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Some clues:

 

1. You are correct that "R" denotes an aircraft carrier.

2. The Invincible class were HMS Invincible (R05), HMS Illustrious (R06) and HMS Ark Royal (R07).

3. The previous R08 was Centaur class and the previous R09 was Audacious class. Both were in commission when the first of the Invincible class was laid down but decommissioned before the last of the Invincible class was commissioned.

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Some clues:

3. The previous R08 was Centaur class and the previous R09 was Audacious class. Both were in commission when the first of the Invincible class was laid down but decommissioned before the last of the Invincible class was commissioned.

 

With this in mind (and help from friends in the Navy) it can only be HMS Bulwark and HMS Ark Royal.

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Technically, the naval bases are HMNB Portsmouth, HMNB Devonport, HMNB Rosyth and the Clyde Submarine Base. Three of those have associated accommodation shore establishments. HMNB Portsmouth has HMS Nelson; HMNB Devonport has HMS Drake and the Clyde Submarine Base has HMS Neptune. HMNB Rosyth used to have HMS Cochrane until that was decommissioned.

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Thanks for the ding!

 

On checking after the fact, I note that Rosyth no longer has the HMNB tag and that the official name of the Clyde Submarine Base is HMNB Clyde.

 

Keeping with Royal Navy bases, HMS Rooke used to provide the accommodation for which overseas naval base?

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When you see a car on the roads that's from another country, it's supposed to have a white oval shaped badge with a specific letter/two/three letters on it.

 

My question is: - if you saw a car with a badge showing the letters 'KN', which country would it be from?

 

This tweaked my interest so I googled it and was gobsmacked. :lol: :lol: Mind as the footnote (head note) on Wikipedia said :

 

"Note: an asterisk (*) indicates that this code is unofficial (does not appear in the UN list of distinguishing codes)."

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