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Rod Smallwood joined musicians, music promoters and sports bodies this week in calling for a legal requirement on ticket resales companies to state face value of ticket and where they have bought them. The changes to the Consumer Rights Bill were defeated in Parliament yesterday. There's been a social media campaign against ticket touts buying up tickets in bulk to sell on via resale agents.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...gnore-pleas-from-arts-and-sports-9970345.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7bb96230-9a7b-11e4-8426-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3OgpqMvoS
 
Something I've noticed is that the word 7 starts with 's' in all the languages that I can say 7 in.

Estonian: seitse
English: seven
Russian: семь
German: sieben
French: sept
 
Persian is haft, but believe it or not, that actually confirms the rule. Iranian languages as a rule turn an Indo-European initial s into a h (Hindi sata retains it). The voiceless fricative f also has the same root as the voiced fricative v in English, the voiced labial b in German, the voiceless labial p in the Romanic languages - hence, in all these languages, it's the same word.

The Proto Indo-European root is *séptm, hence it's the origin of the word seven in all Romanic, Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, Celtic, Indian and Iranian languages, as well as Greek, Tokharian and Hittite. I would assume that Estonian, itself Finno-Ugric, at some point borrowed it from one of the neighbouring languages.

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Huh. I've been trying to find the video of BTATS from Abbey Road studio and it seems it's no longer on YouTube. o_O
 
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