Acronyms & Tech Speak
With the rise in popularity of the Internet, more computer terms and acronyms have come into common usage. One of the most common is LOL = Laugh Out Loud. LOL has now been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12893416 Related Articles: Most Hated Cliches Idiom Dictionary Collective Nouns All the Words in the English [...]
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An online survey recently asked English speakers to identify the cliches that annoyed them most. “24/7″ and “literally” were some of the phrases that annoyed people the most. Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html 20 of your most hated cliches Related Articles: Most Hated Cliches Idiom Dictionary Collective Nouns All the Words [...]
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English has so many idioms that it’s hard to learn them all. Different idioms are used in different countries and some idioms are only rarely used. A lot of idioms that textbooks use may be ones that are old-fashioned. Other idioms are fads – they are only used for a short time and then it [...]
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English has some unusual collective nouns that are used to refer to groups of animals. Some of these collective nouns are very rarely used. There are common ones that most native speakers are familiar with: A herd of elephants. A flock of birds. Even the common nouns aren’t used as much any more. You could [...]
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This is a fun video about a cartoon character that tries to sing all of the words in the English language. There are lots of rare English words in the list! If you go to the YouTube website, the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Etjd0lEpk) has the lyrics to the song with all of the words in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Etjd0lEpkk [...]
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