Your questions answered - #3 in an infinite series

We're a bit light on the old "your questions answered" this month, because some idiot removed the Statcounter code from the blog template. So just a few issues, and hopefully normal service will be resumed etc.

• Listen to the Warm Rod McCuen - I'd rather not, if you don't mind terribly much.
  
  
• Aunti beryl bacardi - ah, yes, nostalgia. I miss it too But you might want to check your spelling



• International Workers of the World - at the risk of further confusing you by including your search string again, I wish to confirm that this web site has very little to do with work. Or the world.



• pronounce shrewsbury / how to pronounce Shrewsbury - It is pronounced Shrowsbury. Anyone who tells you different is an idiot. Here is our esteemed colleague Simon's research on the subject:

  But is it Shrewsbury or Shrowsbury? The traditional pronunciation of the 'ew' in Shrewsbury survives in the word 'sew'. In earlier days when spelling was more phonetic the name appears as Shroesbury and Shrowesbury, the 'ow' being sounded as in 'show'. It is a very handsome word when thus enunciated and befitting of such a beautiful mediaeval town. But just to confuse the visitor, you will find the locals pronouncing it both ways!

  
  And while we're on the subject, I'm convinced that the Epiphone guitar company, founded by a Greek immigrant to the United States, should be pronounced the same as "epiphany." I delight in confusing guitar shop employees with this pronunciation. I'm like John Humphrys saying WeDnesday, I am. Shouldn't they teach this stuff at school?



• boomerang centre circle - Ah, yes, the old boomerang centre circle gambit. This would be when the player shapes to kick the ball forward from within the centre circle, and it in fact balloons backwards to his own goalkeeper. Or not.