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14 Interesting Words 
How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.Upon learning an interesting [...]

English has got to be one of the toughest languages to learn. Even our exceptions to the rules have exceptions.
Here are some of my recent mental meanderings on mixed up meanings.
Confusing homophones
1.                  This bimonthly publication comes out every other month, and that bimonthly publication comes             
                              out twice a month. Both sentences are correct.
2.                  Loan (verb) me [...]

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
 
 
 

 
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting word, [...]

Today is a good day because I get to use two of my favorite words in the same post. These words aren’t important in and of themselves; I just like the way they sound. They are pleonasm and superfluous.  I also like onomatopoeia, but that’s fodder for a different post. “Pleonasm” and “superfluous” fall under [...]

Just a little pun with words.
 
Acoustic: Instrument used in billiards.
 
Aversion: One side of a disputed story.
 
Bacteria: The rear portion of a cafeteria.
 
Bigamist: Fog in Italy.
 
Commentator: Undistinguished potato.
 
Debate: What lures de fish.
 
Fungi: A comedian – the life of the party (aka Joe-kster)
Geometry: what an acorn says when it is grown up.
Innuendo: Italian for Preparation H.
Paradox: Medical [...]

When you stop and think about it, words are pretty darn important. They are symbols for our ideas which we code into a form that others can understand. With differences in language, culture, experiences, and education, it is a wonder we can communicate at all. Words often have multiple definitions, and their definitions have varying [...]

Thirteen Interesting Words
 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting [...]

Check out these wacky words
 
The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece, and Spain.
“Four” is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number. 
“Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels [...]

Twelve Interesting Words
 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting [...]

In one of my first posts titled Evolving Language, we saw that with over 600,000 words, English contains more words than any language in human history. That posts explored how the English language acquires new words. This post adds another dimension; it is another piece to the puzzle we call the English language. In the [...]