Tag: words
group name: learnsomething
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January 11, 2008 06:48 AM EST --
When you travel around the corporate world you inevitably run into a lot of buzzwords and catch phrases which we like to use in our daily vocabulary. This may be okay if we are amongst our peers, but . . . more
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August 08, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
Many of our English words when used in another country mean something quite different. They look and sound exactly the same, but the meanings are very different and can get you into trouble, which . . . more
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May 20, 2008 03:11 PM EDT --
I found these so amusing I just had to share. How is it that are brain so readily knows which way to prounounce something.
We have to polish the Polish furniture.
How can he . . . more
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May 21, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
You don't really think about these until you look at them specifically. In our everyday language you would never say them and then think, "Well that was redundant."
Have fun reading . . . more
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November 28, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
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June 11, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL . . . more
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July 18, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
COUPON
A Roman might have had difficulty predicting what would become of the Latin word colaphus, which meant "a blow with the fist." As the variety of Latin spoke in . . . more
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December 05, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
ACRIMONY
Noun
Bitter, sharp hostility, especially in speech.
Some conversations I have heard in our own country sound like old records, long-playing, left over . . . more
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May 22, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL . . . more
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February 06, 2008 09:51 AM EST --
CAPRICIOUS
Adjective
Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable.
Many of the empire's failures lay in the man himself. Half-educated-able to read, . . . more
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July 09, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
INSIDIOUS
Adjective
Doing harm in a subtle or imperceptible manner; treacherous.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), . . . more
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January 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
IRREGARDLESS
Irregardless is a word that many people mistakenly believe to be correct in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. The word . . . more
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July 02, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
SCHLOCK
A good number of English words borrowed from Yiddish (a variety of German with an admixture of Hebrew and Slavic elements) are recognizably of foreign extraction because they begin . . . more
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October 05, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
BREEZE
Nowadays a cool breeze can be enjoyed almost anywhere in the world, but when the word breeze first appeared in English in the late 1500s, it originally referred to the northeast trade winds . . . more
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October 26, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
Crusade
In 1095, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I sent a plea for help to the leaders of western Europe — the Muslim forces of the Seljuk Turks were chipping away at his empire, . . . more
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November 02, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Alligator
A few days after Easter in 1513, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León and the other Spaniards accompanying him on his expedition spotted the shores of what . . . more
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December 26, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
BUG/INSECT
The word bug is often used to refer to any insect, and sometimes to spiders and crustaceans (such as the pill bug), none of which are insects. But in strict biological . . . more
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December 28, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
BLUE BLOOD
The English expression blue blood, meaning "an aristocratic pedigree" as well as "a member of the aristocracy," is in origin a translation of the . . . more
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February 08, 2008 10:08 AM EST --
Guitar
The Spanish language has given English a remarkable number of words relating to music of all kinds, from popular Latin American styles like mambo, rumba, and salsa, to the noble . . . more
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April 24, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
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