If there were an uninhabited tropical island (assumed to be in the Pacific) with the conditions and history necessary for pigs, and pink granite, what would the boys likely have eaten? It's mentioned that they predominately eat fruit and nuts, with the occasional fish or crab. Later, they start e...

I heard Great Expection in audio. I try to find the word pronounced as desingal? degemal?

In chapter 12 of The Just Men of Cordova (1917) by Edgar Wallace, the author was describing the situation of two horses, Nemesis and Timpolino, in the betting on horse racing: The field was at the starting-post: “Your horse is drawn in the middle,” she said. He put up his glasses. He could see t...

Disclaimer: this is going to be a stupidly obvious question for anyone who speaks either Hindi or Bengali, but with zero knowledge of either language I can't really eke out an answer. Apologies if this comes across as a silly question. Rabindranath Tagore's poem "This Dog" on AllPoetry.com is giv...

In the Pern novels, characters use words that would normally be innocuous as profanity. Some prominent examples are "shards" and "shells". There's a list of in-universe curse words that I found at the back of Dragonflight: PERNESE OATHS By the Egg By the first Egg By the Egg of Faranth Scorch i...