Your claim to an Oxford degree, no I'm sorry, two Oxford degrees - one in Political Science and the other in International Relations is contradicted first by your exchange with the original poster that corrected you on your calling the EU an NGO:
the EU is not a single nation, nor is the UN or UAE. They are actually something called NGO's, or non-governmental organizations. ... we do not link flags to NGO's. - 
 The EU is nothing BUT a governmental organization. Its purpose is to politically unite the countries within the European Community. it does not 'act on behalf' of any single state; it is a united entity. Ditto the UAE.. Kapowow 
Are you seriously trying to suggest that the EU is not an NGO? ... If you consider me throwing my political science and international relations degrees at you to be derogatory, then I have to say that I am sorry you feel that way. I am not a potted plant; I know the policies of which I speak, ... - 
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It lacks all credence after this "original" claim that somehow the word "Penultimate's" meaning had "evolved":
Regarding the 'penultimate' stuff - not worries - as I said, it's just a word. I always thought is was used as next to the end, as in right before the ending. A slightly different meaning has become popular, like how the original phrase "buck naked" (meaning, naked as a male deer) becoming mispronounced so often that now people say "butt-naked". It would render me a crabby old man to decry the loss of the word meanings. It was also make me something of a jerk. Words evolve. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 
 It has not. Your claim could be fully exposed for the fraud it is just by the lack of Oxford degrees in "Poli Sci" or "Int'l Relations". I personally am not fully conversant in Oxbridge minutia, but I do not believe Poli Sci exists as such there.75.57.205.135