lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2007

Synonyms

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.

Tongue Twister

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.


viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2007

a nice song

Katie...

jueves, 15 de noviembre de 2007

British English - American English

BRITISH ENGLISHAMERICAN ENGLISH
an aeroplanean airplane
aluminiumaluminum
anaesthetistanesthesiologist
a flatan apartment
a starter (before the meal)an appetizer
an engagementan appointment
archaeologyarcheology


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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