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- How do you answer someone who says ``Nice to meet you''?
- What is the origin of ``Jeep''?
- Is the word ``orange'' a Tamil word?
- How is the word ``paradigm'' pronounced?
- Why do we abbreviate ``example'' to ``e.g.''?
- Is it O.K to say, ``What class are you reading?''
- When someone sneezes why do people say, ``Bless you''?
- How do you pronounce ``joie de vivre''? What is its meaning?
- People tend to say, ``the media is''. Shouldn't it be ``the media are''?
- What is the difference between ``a few'' and ``few''?
- What is the meaning of the expression ``to carry coals to Newcastle''?
- What is the opposite of Utopia?
- WHAT IS the origin of ``red tape''?
- How do you address a woman who is divorced?
- What is the difference ``battle'' and ``war''?
- What is the difference between ``its'' and ``it's''?
- How do you pronounce the word xenophobia?
- Newsreaders say ``main stories''. Is it OK to use ``stories'' when referring to news?
- In one of the episodes in ``Law and Order'' the detectives kept saying ``DOA''. What do the initials stand for?
- Is it O.K to use the word ``thrice'' to mean ``three times''?
- WHAT IS the meaning of the idiom ``to bite the dust''?
- How do you pronounce the word ``hooch''?
- What is the meaning of ``snail mail''?
- What is the difference between ``flats'' and ``apartments''?
- What is the meaning of ``ad nauseam''?
- How do you pronounce the final `s' in ``Charles's''?
- Is it OK to say ``The Chief Minister is in favour with Sumalatha''?
- Why is the television called the ``idiot box''?
- What is the meaning and origin of ``not be up to scratch''?
- What is the question tag to be used for ``I am a boy''?
- What is the meaning of ``carte blanche''?
- Is it OK to say, ``Australia's Northern Territory passed an euthanasia law''?
- How do you pronounce ``Seoul'', the capital of South Korea?
- What is the difference between ``translation'' and ``transliteration''?
- Is it OK to say ``The whole building shivers when a train goes past''?
Know Your English - May 2001
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| Definition: | (adjective) Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting. |
| Synonyms: | chantlike, intoned |
| Usage: | The art of his reading was supposed to lie in rolling out the words, quite independently of their meaning, in a loud and singsong voice alternating between a despairing wail and a tender murmur. |
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  Michael Malloy: The Man Who Would Not DieIn New York City in 1933, five men took out three life-insurance policies on an alcoholic vagrant named Michael Malloy in the hopes of hastening his death and receiving the payout. One of the men owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy unlimited credit, but the vagrant drank all day without effect. He even survived when they replaced his liquor with various poisons, fed him carpet tacks and metal shavings, attempted to freeze him to death, and hit him with a car. What finally killed Michael Malloy? More... Discuss |
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 Priest Attempts to Assassinate the Pope in Portugal (1982)Almost a year to the day after Pope John Paul II was shot by a Turkish gunman, a priest named Juan María Fernández y Krohn attacked the pontiff with a bayonet. It was long thought that the would-be assassin was restrained before he could wound the pope, but a former aide now claims that the pope was indeed injured. During his trial, Krohn accused the pope of being a secret communist agent in league with the USSR. How long was his prison sentence? More... Discuss |
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 Gustav I of Sweden (1496?)Considered the father of modern Sweden, Gustav I was king of Sweden and founder of the Vasa dynasty. A senator's son, he became a leader in the rebellion against the Danes, who controlled most of Sweden. In 1523—having won Sweden's independence—he was elected king. He was an autocratic ruler and built a strong monarchy and an efficient administration. Aside from his temper, he was known for his love of music and sly wit. How did being beaten with a baking implement supposedly save his life? More... Discuss |
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 You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Discuss |
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