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PLAY AND LEARN THE DICTIONARY GAME Hello friends! How are you? Shall I ask you a question?, Well, how many of you have a dictionary? What is the name of that dictionary? How many of you have the habit of consulting the dictionary often? Do you know anything about the different varieties of dictionaries? Don’t worry about these things now. If you have a dictionary, please do take it and ask you friends to join you in playing the Dictionary game! Do you like to know why we play this game? Well, to know the correct meaning of the word, to improve our vocabulary, to know the correct spelling, to know the etymology, we play this game. 1. How to play: Ask your friends to sit around you. They have to bring a pencil. You distribute a few small pieces of paper to them. Now, you hold the dictionary in hand. Please do not open the dictionary. Ask any one of the friends to take a pencil and insert it in between the pages. Just open the page pierced. You find a number of words on the left page as ...

PANGRAM Pangram is sentence or other short text using every letter of the alphabet. Shortest Pangram (Holoalphabetic Sentence) Pangrammists who endeavour to produce meaningful sentence of minimal length utilising all the letters in the alphabet have now attained the ultimate of 26 letter brevity. The most intelligible example, with the help of a little punctuation, was devised by Paul Horn of New York, USA and states that ‘ Mr Jock, T.V. quiz PhD, bags few lynx’. The number of ways 26 letters can be combined is 4.0329 X 1026

Commonest Words and Letters The most frequently used words in written English are, in descending order of frequency : the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it, for and as. The commonest letter is ‘e’ . More words begin with the letter ‘s’ than any other, but the most commonly used initial letter is ‘t ’ as in the ‘the’, ‘to’, ‘that’ or ‘there’ .

Death of a Scrabble Master This was the greatest of the game’s great players: If you played BRAS, he’d make it HUDIBRASTIC. He ruled a world 15 by 15 squares, Peopled by 100 loetters, wood or plastic. He unearthed EBEC, HAJI, useful QAID, Found QUOS (see pl. of QUID PRO QUO) and QUOTHA, Discovered AU, DE, DA all unitalicized (AU JUS, DA CAPO, ALMANACH DE GOTHA). Two-letter words went marching through his brain, Spondaic-footed, singing their slow litany: AL (Indian Mulberry), AI (a sloth), EM, EN BY, MY, AX, EX, OX, LO, IT, AN, HE ... PE (Hebrew letter), LI ( aChinese mile), KA, Re, SH (like NTH, spectacularly vowellness), AY, OY ( a cry of grief, pain or dismay); HAI, HI, HO -- leaving opponents powerless. He, if the tiles before him said DOC TIME, Would promptly play the elegant DEMOTIC, And none but the fulfilled the scrabbler’s dream, When, through two triple words, he hung QUIXOTIC. The day his adversary put down GNASHED, He laid -- a virtuoso feat -- beneath it GOUTIER, So placed...

Important Abbreviations 1) Title before name Kumari ...............................Kum. Srimati ...............................Smt. Mister ...............................Mr. Mistress ...............................Mrs. Doctor ...............................Dr. Captain ...............................Capt. Professor ...............................Prof. Messieurs ...............................Messrs. / M/setc. 2) Degree after names Doctor of Philosophy ...............................Ph.D., Doctor of Medicine ...............................M.D., Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ......M.B.,B.S.,Bachelor of Engineering ...............................B.E., Bachelor of Education ...............................B.Ed., Bachelor of Science ...............................B.Sc., Bachelor of Commerce ...............................B.Com., Bachelor of Arts ...............................B.A., Bachelor of Law ...............................LL.B., Bachelor of Physical Education ...............

World Mother Language Day International Year of Languages 2008 An article in Kannada Language by Bedre Manjunath Published in Prajavani Daily 19-02-2008, Tuesday in Education Column

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