The word "drake" is an accepted word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a male duck, or as a surname. Example: Mrs. Drake opened the door to her house, and saw two drakes waddling on her front lawn.
For every Drake, Nicki Minaj and obligatory rap in the middle of Olly Murs new single, there is an MIA or Tyler, the Creator.
Perhaps he wanted to let grime-loving Drake know that he's still the king of being up on obscure subcultural stuff.
Obscure in his lifetime, Drake sold only 5,000 copies of his final album, Pink Moon, before overdosing on pills in 1974 at the age of 26.
Among them is the gold, ruby and diamond Drake Jewel, a cameo pendant which opens to reveal a picture of Queen Elizabeth I and is thought to have been a gift from her to Sir Francis Drake who helped defeat the Spanish armada.
ReprintsSurprisingly (or perhaps not, given the male-dominated nature of science) the elaborate cataloguing of drake genitalia had not been extended to ducks.
In fact, drake penises come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes that are thought by students of the subject to be part of an arms race to ensure that it is the owner's sperm that fertilise the next generation of ducklings, rather than anybody else's.The question is, an arms race against whom?
State funding of residential treatment, says Tristan Millington-Drake, chief executive of the Chemical Dependency Centre, a charity and treatment provider, remains a serious problem.
The southern islands fringe the Sir Francis Drake Channel, which teems with coral reefs, colourful fish and turtles.
Some pirates are recruited by the state: Sir Francis Drake pilfered for England, and the Pentagon employs past hackers, too.
The director's biggest ever hit, Vera Drake, enjoyed an exceptionally sustained run, eventually reaching £2.38m.
Made in Dagenham Shifty The Firm Vera Drake All Or Nothing Made in Dagenham Doctor Who Made in Dagenham The Sweet Smell of Success Hearing that Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino's editor, had died last week after hiking in a canyon on a sweltering day in LA, was a bitter irony.
