London was located in the East Midlands dialect zone, but because of its status as the capital, its East Midlands dialect was influenced by southern (Saxon) and southeastern (Kentish) dialects. The normal East Midlands development of (Ã¼) was (oÍo), spelled u.
The million-dollar leg club has come a long way since film icon and poster girl Betty Grable starred in the 1939 classic, âMillion Dollar Legs.â. Since then, a host of celebrities and athletes have followed suit and had their famous legs â and feet â insured by Lloydâs of London for $1 million or more.
A few miles away lives the woman with the world's longest legs. As the Washington Post noted on Monday, the Guinness record-holder for women's longest legs is a Falls Church basketball coach. Svetlana Pankratova's legs are, according to Guinness, almost 4 feet, 4 inches long. (At 6 feet, 5 inches tall, she's not the world's tallest woman, however; the woman certified as Guinness' tallest living woman, 7-feet-7-inch tall Yao Defen, died in November.)