Reward:
bribe, compensate, compensation, desert, gratification, guerdon, merit, pay, pay back, payment, payoff, recompense, remunerate, remuneration, repay, requital, requite, retribution, wage, wages.
Hostile:
adverse, aggressive, antagonistic, antipathetic, antisocial, averse, belligerent, contentious, contrary, icy, ill, inhospitable, inimical, opposed, opposing, opposite, pugnacious, repugnant, uncongenial, unfavourable, unfriendly, unkind, unsociable, warlike.
lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2007
viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2007
jueves, 15 de noviembre de 2007
British English - American English
| BRITISH ENGLISH | AMERICAN ENGLISH |
| an aeroplane | an airplane |
| aluminium | aluminum |
| anaesthetist | anesthesiologist |
| a flat | an apartment |
| a starter (before the meal) | an appetizer |
| an engagement | an appointment |
| archaeology | archeology |
Etiquetas:
British English vs American English,
Grammar
Why is "I" capitalized?
"Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).
A Tongue Twister
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
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This blog was created to help all British English learners... Here I'll include short stories, curious phrases, some grammar specially prepositions and phrasal verbs and more and more information in English of course, including videos, pictures and audios...
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