One of my friends tutors a group of children aged 6 through 10. These children are addicted to using the word "like" inappropriately, their sentences are peppered with the word "like", and my friend wants to make them quit that habit!
This is what I came up with:
Teach them where the word "l...
What is the meaning of “runneth” in My Cup Runneth Over?
Straining my mind to sound archaic, I came up with the following:
Dost thou thinkest thou can escape thy sins?
and
Bringeth me my armor and favorite sword.
I'd like to use these suffixes intelligently, so my questions are, how are "-est" and "-est" properly appellated in conjugations,...
I can tell you right now what will happen: none of the predictions will be right, or, if any are, they will be right for the wrong reasons or in different ways from what the predicters expect.
Even this prediction will probably be wrong in profound and unexpected ways.
EDIT: Citation according ...
I've often heard people say "hyperbole" exactly as it is written, "hi-per-bole", instead of how it is actually pronounced: "hi-pear-bow-lee". How did it get such an unusually different pronunciation from such a simple spelling?
hyperbole /haɪˈpɜrbəli/
(Evidently it's not the next step after the Super Bowl.)
The word bicycle is pronounced /'baɪsɪkəl/ (bahy-si-kuhl), like sickle. However, the words unicycle and motorcycle both have the -cycle pronounced as /-'saɪkəl/ (sahy-kuhl). Is there some sort of reason for this, or is this just a vagary of English pronunciation?
Are there any indications that (global) English is going to split into different languages in the next hundred years?
If I understand the etymology of pedophile and pederast, both mean child lover. Is there a difference in their connotation?
In some recent local news stories that discuss changing sex offender laws, the controversy has centered around dividing the pedophiles and the rapists from the more questi...
Is there no other word in the English language that rhymes with "Orange"?
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The 2011 end times prediction made by Christian radio host Harold Camping states that the Rapture (in premillennial theology, the taking up into heaven of God's elect people) will take place on May 21, 2011 at 6 p.m. local time (the rapture will sweep the globe time zone by time zone) and that the end of the world as we know it will take place five months later on October 21, 2011. Camping, president of the Family Radio Christian network, claims the Bible as his source and says May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment "beyond the shadow of a doubt". His followers cla...
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KITT is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure TV series Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider, and the other as the Knight Industries Three Thousand, which appeared first in the two-hour 2008 pilot film for a new Knight Rider TV series and then the new series itself. In both instances, KITT is an artificially intelligent electronic computer module installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robotic automobile: the or...
In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of same-sex love in ancient Greece. The most widespread and socially significant form of same-sex sexual relations in ancient Greece was between adult men and adolescent boys, known as pederasty. (However, marriages in Ancient Greece between men and women were also age structured, with men in their 30s commonly taking wives in their early teens.) Though homosexual relationships between adult men did exist, at least one member of each of these relationships flouted social convent...
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