Nonetheless, there is something curiously English in the monomania of the festival's prime movers.
Perhaps, too, there is something about the English language itself that makes fantasy so popular in English-speaking countries.
He is better produced as something exotic, English.
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But we English have something of a standard line for these sorts of situations.
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The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, " by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
Martin-Jenkins would like to encourage finger-spinners and better batting techniques by returning to uncovered pitches - something not seen in English cricket since 1980.
Fernandez eventually made it to Miami, where he struggled to learn English and make something of himself.
"An understanding and knowledge of English literature is something we would all consider an essential part of education to GCSE level for all pupils, " said Mr Gove.
It would result in Welsh government funding being spent on the English NHS, something "which cannot be a decision for the local health board alone", she said.
Chen might hire another twenty-something who was fluent in English.
"The pop world at that time loved The Beatles and that north-western English sound was something that America wanted, when they put together the so-called Pre-Fab Four, " he said, referring to the nickname given to The Monkees.
By far the most popular motivations were to improve their English and to experience something new.
Which leads to something along the lines of the English electricity market.
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English translation: Make something that will ultimately go viral.
Nothing much happens in Pomerol, so it came as something of a surprise to find the English radio and television broadcaster Chris Evans roaring around the roads in his Bentley GT convertible.
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There is something astringently Roman about the world of the English novelist Edward St.
If you were wondering if there is something particularly groovy about the microbes in the English Channel, there isn't.
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However looking at movies, that really does seem to be something that Hollywood, at least in the English speaking world, has a lock on.
It was a sweet, if nerve-jangling, victory for the English, for whom Sweden had become something of a bogey team in international tournaments.
It is as if Scotland stole something, or committed some dreadful sin against rugby and the English right to win that match.
But the English Heritage spokeswoman said that to describe her as something else would be placing her "in the shadows of a profession of which she was a lead proponent and pioneer".
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They won't because Michael Gove will tell the Commons later today that he's shelving the new qualification, retaining the GCSE brand in England, and changing the league table criteria for English schools to include a capped points score - something Mr Andrews was keen to tell 5Live listeners has been in place in Wales for 18 months.
Wales's language disputes are certainly nothing to those of Belgium, where personal relations between the Flemish and Walloon communities can be rancorous, or of Quebec, where English-speakers have left in droves. (In fact, the English continue to come to Wales in substantial numbers, something many language activists deplore.) Even those who do not speak the language say they are proud of it.
Wilkinson concedes that, in the results-driven industry that is English football, Cole may been suffered from being viewed as something of a luxury - a gifted individual who might have been revered in Spain, Italy or France, where greater emphasis is placed on technical ability and the game is played at a less frenetic pace.
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The British historian Andrew Roberts, whom I ran into on the beaches of Normandy on the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day, told me that something like 95 per cent of the allied troops who died that day were English-speaking.
Forty years ago, an English physicist called James Dungey, now 77 years old, gave that something a name: magnetic reconnection.
When thinking of a romantic song, most think of something in Spanish (34%), followed by French (29%), English (17%) and then Italian (9%).
Somehow it has become conventional wisdom in the English-speaking world that in the last two decades Japan has gone through something similar to the gut-wrenching economic problems suffered by the United States in the 1930s.
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Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
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"That shows a comfort in their own security and power, in that they're happy for something as important as a water resource to be placed north of the frontier, " Dave Macleod, from English Heritage aerial survey team, said.
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