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TONGUE TWISTERS

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TONGUE TWISTERS An expression that is difficult to articulate clearly "'rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister" Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked? Betty bought a bit of butter, but the butter was bitter So Betty bought a bit better butter To make the bitter butter better butter. A wright has no right to write the rites of a Church. She sells sea-shells on the sea shore. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you, If you trouble trouble trouble will trouble you. Sunshine Susie sat in solitude and isolation sighing and singing sad songs. A fly flew past Flo’s flat, and a fly flew past fat Flo Is the fly that flew past fat Flo, the same fly that flew past Flo’s flat ? A glasgow glazier’s glorious gleaming green glass gasglobes. A glowing gleam glowing green. A jester from Leicester went to see Esther, But

PROVERBS AND PROVERB GAME

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PROVERBS AND PROVERB GAME A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people. Please complete the proverb. 1. A bird in the hand is_______________. (worth two in the bush.) 2. A crowd is_____________________. (no company.) 3. A drowning man ________________. (will catch at a straw.) 4. A full purse ____________________. (never lacks friends.) 5. All that glitters__________________. (is not gold.) 6. Blood is _______________________. (thicker than water.) 7. New broom_____________________. (sweeps well.) 8. No smoke______________________. (without fire.) 9. Where there is a will ____________. (there is a way.) 10. Well begun is ___________________. (half done.) Please complete the proverb. 1. ________________ needs no paint. (A good face........) 2. ________________ has no legs. (A lie has .............) 3. ________________ is the devil’s workshop. (An idle brain .....) 4. ________________ so is the son. (As is the father ,.

KANGAROO WORDS

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KANGAROO WORDS Hello Friends! Do you know what Kangaroo is? Well, it is a large Australian mammal with a long stiff tail, short front legs and long powerful back legs on which it moves by jumping. Kangaroo is a marsupial, a type of mammal which is not completely developed when it is born and is carried around in a pocket on the mother's body where it is fed and protected until it is completely developed. But do you know what the word "Kangaroo" means? "Don’t know?" Strange! That is the answer! When the European travellers asked the aborigins, natives of Australia, about the animal which was hopping around the natives replied "Kangaroo!" i.e., they don’t know. The wise travellers took it to be the word for the name of the animal and started calling the animal by that name itself! Kangaroos carry their joeys in their pouches. What is a Kangaroo Word? A "Kangaroo Word" is one which carries within its spelling, in normal order, a smaller word whi

Top Ten Longest Words in the Oxford English Dictionary

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Top Ten Longest Words in the Oxford English Dictionary 1. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis _____45 2. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious _______________34 3. pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism _____________30 4. floccinaucinihilipilification ___________________29 4. triethylsulphonemethylmethane ______________29 5. antidisestablishmentarianism _______________28 5. octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane _______________28 5. tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin _______________28 6. hepaticocholangiogastronomy _______________27 7. radioimmunoelectrophoresis _______________26 7. radiommunoelectrophoretic _______________26 Words that are hyphenatned, including such compound words as "transformational-generative" and " tristhio-dimethyl-benzaldehyde", have not been included. Only one unhyphenated word did not make it into the Top 10, the 25-letter "psychophysicotherapeutics". After this, there is a surprisingly large number of words containing 20-24 letters (radioimmuno

Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs

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Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs Homonym noun [C] a word that sounds the same or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning: e.g., ‘Bow’ (= bend at the waist) and ‘bow’ (= weapon) are also homonyms. RIGHT- RIGHT LEFT - LEFT NAIL - NAIL BOARD - BOARD WELL - WELL BEAR - BEAR LIGHT - LIGHT MIND - MIND BAT - BAT SEAL - SEAL BOOK - BOOK BALL - BALL LETTER - LETTER WORD - WORD SENTENCE - SENTENCE 1. The BAT cannot use the BAT and ball. 2. We can use our NAILS to pick the NAILS. 3. That was a RIGHT dicision to turn the knob to the RIGHT. 4. She turned LEFT and then LEFT her bag there in the corner. 5. No one feels WELL when one falls into a WELL. 6. I cannot BEAR the weight of that huge BEAR. Homograph noun [C] a word which is spelled the same as another word and might be pronounced the same or differently, but which has a different meaning: e.g., ‘Bow’ meaning the front of a ship, ‘bow’ meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon and ‘bow’ meaning a device used to shoot a

Short Message (Messaging) Service

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Short Message (Messaging) Service @ --------at ADN --------any day now AFAIK --------as far as I know ATB --------all the best B --------be BBL --------be back late(r) BCNU --------be seeing you BFN --------bye for now B4 --------before BRB --------be right back BTW --------by the way BWD --------backwardz C --------see CU --------see you CUL8R --------see you later F2F --------face to face F2T --------free to talk FWD --------forward FWIW --------for what it’s worth FYI --------for your information GAL --------get a life GR8 --------great HAND --------have a nice day H8 --------hate HTH --------hope this helps IC I --------see ILUVU --------I love you IMHO --------in my humble opinion IMO --------in my opinion IOW --------in other words JIC --------just in case JK --------just kidding KIT --------keep in touch KWIM --------know what I mean? L8 --------late L8R --------later LOL --------lots of luck /laughing out loud MOB --------mobile MSG --------message MYOB --------mind your own bu

ENGLISH - THE FUNNIEST LANGAUGE

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ENGLISH THE FUNNIEST LANGAUGE We will begin with BOX and the plural is BOXES But the plural of OX should be OXEN and not OXES. Then one fowl is GOOSE but two are GEESE Yet the plural of MOUSE should never be MEESE. You may find a lone MOUSE or a whole set of MICE But the plural of HOUSE is HOUSES not HICE. If the plural of MAN be always MEN Why shouldn’t the plural of PAN be PEN? If I speak of a FOOT and then you show me your FEET And I give you a BOOT, would a pair be called BEET? If one is TOOTH, and a whole set is TEETH Why should not the plural of BOOTH be BEETH? Then one may be THAT and three may be THOSE Yet HAT in the plural would never be HOSE And the plural of CAT is CATS not COSE. We speak of a BROTHER and also a BRETHREN But alothough we say MOTHER we never say MOTHREN. Then the masculine pronouns are HE, HIS and HIM But imagine the feminine SHE, SHIS and SHIM. So, English, I fancy, you will agree, is the FUNNIEST LANGUAGE you ever did see! - Leo Angela Rupert