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PHILE WORDS

ACROPHILE: a lover of mountainsAEROPHILATELIST: one who collects airmail stampsANGLOPHILE: a lover of England and/or the EnglishBIBLIOPHILE: a lover of booksCARTOPHILY: the collecting of cigarette cardsCUMYXAPHILY: the collecting ofmatchboxesDISCOPHILY: the collecting of gramophone recordsHIPPOPHILE: a lover of horsesPERIDROMOPHILY: the collecting of bus and railway ticketsPHILANTHROPE: a lover of mankindSTEGOPHILY: a lover of climbing buildingsZOOPHILIST: a lover of animals
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Mr and Mrs or Mrs and Mr?

In India people commonly use Mrs and Mr as in 'Mrs and Mr Thomas Jacob invite you .......'.But the people of Britain and America use Mr and Mrs as in 'Mr and Mrs Thomas Jacob invite you .......'.Which one of these is used in your country?
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Writing Prompts: Capital I

Writing Prompts ~ Capital I

  As every commited language learner I really love the wonderful language learning world,  especially the world of the English language. One of the hardest "problems" that I face in my personal learning is the issue of the correct usage of  definite article "THE". I know it can be a silly thing, primary thing, thing that almost all beginner learner has already  in mind  long time, but, the truth is that in fact, I also  have problems with this three-letter small word w

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TIME IS PRECIOUS

I think is more than precious,,, we can't compare it with any thing even Diamond or Gold because these things go and back ,so in my opinion  (Time is like a river you can't touch the same water twice because  the flow that has passed will never pass again),, don't wast your time.......

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LAKH and CRORE

The people outside India and Pakistan are unfamiliar with the words LAKH and CRORE.In India, LAKH is used in place of 'one hundred thousand' and CRORE in place of 'ten million'.In India, one lakh is written as 1,00,000 and one crore as 1,00,00,000.In other countries, one lakh is written as 100,000 and one CRORE as 10,000,000.
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BIODATA

The people of India use such words, and grammar that are unfamiliar to the people of Britain and America. The particular English used by Indians is known as Indian English.The Oxford University Press has already published a dictionary named COMMON INDIAN WORDS IN ENGLISH. But even this dictionary does not contain the word BIODATA, which is a very common word used by Indians. At the same time the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary records the word BIODATA , labelling it as Indian English.We, In
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Listen To News: YouTube Holds Inaugural Music Awards ~ 05 November 2013

Discussion Question: How has YouTube revolutionised the music industry? 

  I consider YouTube one of the most fascinating tools of the Internet era. Through it, I can learn, study, teach, sing, listen, in the end, express me in thousands of  different ways. It's an amazing platform for who knows how to use it properly, didactically I'd say too.

  I feel that YouTube has revolutionised the music industy mainly for the new genera

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Palindromes

Seeing one of the new lessons on this site about palindromes reminds me of a fun song by Weird Al where the lyrics are entirely palindromes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJdxUwF1Wg

Bob - Named after Bob Dylan, the tune is Subterranean Homesick Blues

I, man, am regal A German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot

Lisa Bonnet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Rise to vote, Sir
Do geese see God?
Do nine m

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WHAT IS LIFE !!!!

Life is like a desert where we walk carefully on the sharp stones and sparkling sand. If a person blows up the way once, then he always swerves.His legs tremble with fatigue and his feet bleed. Atlast,that person loses his game of life after fighting with the life's challenges.

 

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Hi sima , sorry for the delay 

this is your questions answer .  

Diwali  also called DivaliDeepavali or the "festival of lights", is a five-day Hindu festival which starts on Dhanteras, celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha (waning moon fortnight) of the Hindu calendar month Ashvin and ends on Bhau-beej, celebrated on the second lunar day of Shukla Paksha (waxing moon fortnight) of the month KartikDhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra. In the Gregorian calenda

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9 ways to offer to help someone

I have seen another article from this site hope you enjoyyyyyyyyy:D :D  When you want to help someone, how do you make your offer in English?

There are a lot of different ways to offer your assistance. Which phrase you should choose depends on the situation. Here are some English phrases for offering help that you should definitely know! They're arranged roughly in order from most casual to most formal.

1. I'll (do something).

This is a really simple, casual way to offer to help someone. Use this p

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Dear friend whatever positive things I learnt or install in myself all I got from my mother.. Patience is a most required skill for everything…. It has a magical effect which helps to disappear difficulties as well as help to vanish obstacles …our positive thinking lend a hand to us to learn or design in life perfect way.. I learnt happiness cannot be travel or catch it by hand automatically.We need to fight to grab it. Life is short and has so many obstacles despite need to live it, as the pain

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I think, each other are learning a lot. Because each one has different knowledge and different interests. Thus the different cultures due because we live in different countries. Besides, we have the passion to learn this beautiful language, all languages are beautiful but this one, at this moment, is the more important in the world, No, no, the best is always our mother language, so, besides the passion we have the envy to speak with other people. So doing that, learning from them is mandatory.

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What will you call the teacher who teaches you English - English teacher or teacher of English?

You may say that both are correct. When you say so, I definitely side with you. But while teacher of English creates no ambiguity, English teacher is ambiguous. An English teacher may either be a teacher who teaches English or a teacher who is an Englishman or woman.

You should always try to avoid the uses of ambiguous words.

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A great Japanese Woman

There are two attitudes in the world ; positive and negative .There is an old conflict between virtue and vice .The virtue always wins the battle . I read an Arabic translation for a quotation belongs to Mahatma Gandih “ if we follow offense by another offense; so when will the offense be stopped .”But the majority of people often like to be treated the same way they treat others. They want to love and to be loved back, to care for and be cared back, to yearn for and be longed for in return ,but

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The Walking Dead!

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The things that have been colouring my days is when i have chance to watch Walking Dead series for a long hour. This kind of film makes me feel undescribable to whether like a certain actor or not. Things are difficult to predict in this film. Once i really admired one person in the film, then later on he would have done something very bad, such killing and anything out of my mind to think that he would do it. The point is, it makes me always giving my full-attention to it what it's going on. An

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Despite being heavy workload, I am trying to set aside time for learning English. Before fix my mind to learn English i have thought like this"How much I strain my mind, I could not change things. All I can do is accept thing and be prepare what tomorrow may bring." but now my thought is changed and its turn a look" everything is possible if trying hard. To get more suitability in english, first step is to make a habit of reading a book. I love to read books during my spare time.

Anyhow, I wanted

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