I would never be allowed to forget that date either. My 35th wedding anniversary 
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I think Iād do something similar if we were there.
The lovely sympathetic reaction we had from people in a restaurant in N France when the Queen died made me think that - for all you might be a Republican - you would still happily join a friendās celebration.
I had very limited dealings with him many years ago. Your comments certainly resonate with me.
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Interesting. The Guardian continues its anti-monarchy campaign, which handily in this instance allows them to indulge their anti-Christian agenda at the same time. Thereās something in that vein pretty much every day at the moment.
I donāt think it serves the Christian church to be established. Itās silly for the Guardian to think that anyone might be persuaded to consider the faith as a result of seeing these proceedings, or that such is on anyoneās agenda.
But there is at least one glimmering of understanding: āā¦ some of the coronation prayers read like a cry for help.ā
The suggestion that KC would be āDefender of faithsā seems to have quietly gone away, though.
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Wow!
- below are two minor airship factoids:-
The family photo album has a photo of the Graf Zeppelin visiting Detroit in 1933.
The Art Deco lounge of the otherwise C18th Crown and Kettle pub in Central Manchester was originally in the R100, which was grounded and scrapped after the R101 disaster.
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Well I guess efficiencies are being sought everywhere these days 
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Hereās a third factoid (perhaps a metafactoid): factoid originally meant something that wasnāt actually a fact, but by 1988 had taken the additional meaning in which @DrMarkH used it
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Iāll put that on my must visit when in the area list.
I have to say mostly that is how I would use it but I donāt have a problem with people using it otherwise, perhaps as an item in a listicle 
At the end of the 80s I worked for a guy who was extremely able in many areas, but would normally make up factoids to suit his needs, whether that was carrying an argument or self-aggrandisement. It might be a case of quoting the results of and referencing a particular scientific paper that didnāt exist, or telling a crowded coffee room about how the pilot of a transatlantic flight had invited him to the cockpit to fly the plane. After a while his stories were greeted with āoh yes, another factoid Rogerā which didnāt in the least deter him.
So for me factoid = lie.
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Well as there isnāt separation of church and state and the monarch is head of the church as well as everything else, like you Iām surprised they are surprised.
De profundus clamavi ad te domine indeed, domine exaudi vocem meam and so on. But thatās what they are isnāt it? I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid, my safety cometh from the lord, because whereās it coming from otherwise?
AS Byatt writes very interestingly in I think Still Life about watching the coronation in 1953, I wonāt try to quote it because Iāll get it wrong but itās worth a read.
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So how do you refer to one question taken from a test?
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No idea, a question? An answer? An item? Actually I was really musing to myself about listicles because I rewatched the fab ted talk about ancient social networks and social media by Tom Standage.
Sorry Iām probably missing the point here, is factoid or listicle thatās bothering you?
I was thinking you could have a whole listicle of factoids.
9 amazing factoids about Henry the Silent, that sort of thing.
That may be the case, or are you avoiding taking the bait?
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I worked with someone who always insisted on each item in an agenda being referred to as an agendum.
If an article made up of a list is a listicle, what is the analogous term for a song like
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No I genuinely donāt understand. For me a factoid is a falsehood* eg the earth is flat, toothpaste removes lovebites etc.
But other people can and do use it to mean a bit of anecdotal trivia and thatās ok, I probably will too some time, itās even becoming a majority view - I expect meaning to shift and it bothers me a lot less than people saying disinterested when they mean uninterested etc. illogical though that may seem, perhaps because new made-up factoid is barely a word anyway so who cares, (any more than listicle is).
*Or just a bollocks assertion, no malicious intent.
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Working! Though may watch between customers.
A canticle?
Iāve got my coat
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Some of the posts on this thread are tooo complicated for meā¦ 
I must put on my thinking capā¦ and plan some edible treats for my neighbours to nibble on while they watch the ballyhoo on TVā¦ oh, and the odd bottle of something niceā¦ to wash it all downā¦ hic
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Nothing more fun than Mes Malaprop!