Interesting Facts

The Isle of Man has a President. (Now the only reason I know this is that I just read that the Manx parliament of Tynwald has elected its first female president, a Mrs Clare Christian. In fact it has its own parliament - the House of Keys, which sounds a bit like a Hammer Horror film.)

According to the Foundation for Endangered Languages half a million people in the United Kingdom speak Welsh. (There are a number of other languages, apart from English, in the UK. A few thousand Scots are fluent in Gaelic, about 400 people speak Cornish, while the number of Manx speakers - the language of the Isle of Man - is perhaps as small as 100.)