The carpet-beetle, which is commonly, but with no good reason, called the buffalo-moth, is a dermestoid beetle.

And so Sir Trystrames bledde bothe the over-shete and the neyther-shete, and the pylowes and the hede-shete

The result ensured that manager Sam Allardyce made good on his promise to take the Hammers back into the top flight after his team narrowly missed out on automatic promotion at the end of the regular season.

We just returned from a cruise where there were eleven pieces of flatware on the table for dinner: three knives and a soup spoon to the right of the plate, four forks to the left, and a cocktail fork, teaspoon, and demitasse spoon above the plate. Could you please explain the function of each?