Is it scone as in ‘bone’, or scone as in ‘gone’?The debate on whether you should pronounce ‘scone’ to rhyme with ‘gone’ or with ‘bone’ has been going on forever. There is evidence of people making light of the distinction as far back as 1913, with a poem in Punch Magazine:
I asked the maid in dulcet tone,
To order me a buttered scone,
The silly girl has been and gone, Read More...
‘Inventing Anna’ blurs truth and fiction in a new way that leaves us wondering if things like the “Wake” app are real. We examine its real equivalent.
Source: NetflixThe one thing that’s never completely clear in Inventing Anna is what’s reality and what’s fiction. In the Shondaland Netflix series, we know a few things are based on reality. For instance, Anna Sorokin really did masquerade as an heiress named Anna Delvey, conning New York’s elite out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read More...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683 billion as the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, made this disclosure on Friday at the Fund’s strategic planning meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja.
He said from the total, 90.75 per cent is earmarked for direct disbursement, 8.94 per cent for some designated special projects, and 2. Read More...