Your claim to an Oxford degree no Im 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 NGOs or nongovernmental organizations  we do not link flags to NGOs     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     It lacks all credence after this original claim that somehow the word Penultimates meaning had evolved  Regarding the penultimate stuff  not worries  as I said its 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 buttnaked 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 Intl Relations I personally am not fully conversant in Oxbridge minutia but I do not believe Poli Sci exists as such there