A buttress is a she-goat.

Elocution is the American method of killing people.

The Royal Mint is what the king puts on his lamb.

The Poll Tax is a tax to keep parrots out of the country.

A centurion is a man who lives a hundred years.

The Compleat Angler was Euclid.

The dome of St. Paul's is supported by eight peers ; unfortunately they are cracked.

A passive verb is when the subject is the sufferer, such as ' I am loved.'

A musical conductor has to show the players when to swell out and when to get soft.

Wolsey saved his life by dying on the way to London.

In the eighteenth century travelling was very romantic ; most of the roads were only bridal paths.

The vernacular is the way a Scotsman speaks English.

Leap year is instead of its being the next day on the same day next year, it's the day after.

Oxygen is what you become when you are eighty years old.