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 '' 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