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A POEM ON SPELLING & PRONUNCIATION

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I take it you already know

Of TOUGH and BOUGH and COUGH and DOUGH.

Others may stumble but not you

On HICCOUGH, THOROUGH, LOUGH and THROUGH

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of HEARD, a dreadful word

That looks like BEARD and sounds like BIRD

And DEAD – it’s said like BED, not BEAD.

For goodness sake, don’t call it DEED!

Watch out for MEAT and GREAT and THREAT:

They rhyme with SUITE and STRAIGHT and DEBT.

A MOTH i

Type...type...eat...type...bathroom...type...eat...type...eat...type...bathroom...type...sleep...type....!!!

Sometimes, I feel like my fingers are about to fall off (just like now)...yet I still manage to keep on tapping my keyboard.  

But this is how I usually spend my day...and night....except when I'm playing with my kid or out running errands.

Thinking about it...I was reminded of the first time I was learning how to use the typewriter.  

I had a STENO/TYPING class back in high school.

I rememb

There were four students who lived in the same boarding house. One day they had examination in their school, but they, four students were late to take their examination as there was something silly happened. They woke up late and went to their school as sun crawl higher.

Teacher : "You came late, dreaming to have your test...!"
Student A : "Sir, please give us dispensation for this, Since we woke up late this morning, study hard last night sir."
Student B : "We use public vehicle to come here, and

How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?

This article is not written by me. It is not written by any crackpot conspiracy theorist. It is written by Dr Paul Craig Roberts who was Assistant Secretary to the US Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International

my dear friends!!

I just know a website (www.idealist.org) ,the same with my name:)

if you are interested in international volunteering work, you will not disappoint to check this website！

there are also a lot of meaningful articles ~~ today, I read an article named ARE YOU A BUREAUCRACT?

This article cause me to reflect myself if I am a bureaucract without being aware of ?

Anyway, highly recommend here!!

gina

I've noticed some members just keep writing blogs/blog posts, but don't really like to read or leave a comment on blogs from other members. Don't get me wrong - I mean we do encourage you to write blogs, but we also encourage you to leave a comment on blogs by other members.

Would you like others to comment on your blog?

It seems that everyone wants others to comment on their blog. So many people still remember how excited when they saw a comment on what they just wrote. Some members may wonder w

Yesterday me and my friend went to Darband which is the one of famous climbing destinations in Tehran . In Iran we have 2 mountains , One of them is called Zagros and the other is called Alborz and Darband is the one of mountain at Alborz .

During the climbing i decided to take some photos in the way of climbing and share it here with my dear friends because this beauty deserves to be seen with anyone .

It was hard to climb with rope but we had to use it because our destination was Shirpala wh

I can’t see what the dentist is doing in my mouth. Only I can see is scary-looking instruments and chairs. And there is also the horrible high-pitched noise it makes. Then the inevitable pain may be caused by having a needle stuck in my mouth. All above things always well up on my mind before I decide to go to the dentist each time. Do you have similar feeling as mine?

The night before yesterday, one of my molars, wisdom tooth, is like an eruptive volcano disordered me the whole night. The seve

i joined ep...i dont know when..i think its bin months..

 i ve to leave not bcoz i want to...(not dat i m not having the time of my life here... being told dat my parents abondened me when i was a child..n i was attention seeking rude girl....a manly one who is into girls...n many more i dont remember.n as luty said...dat i m like dat bcoz ders no one to love me)

i enjoyed me stay here..wid wonderful amazing ppl on ep....so many of u ..so many ideas so many different thoughts...( diferent kinds o

Wow! Great! Congratulations to Li Na, a Chinese woman tennis player!

These last weeks I feel I have been thinking over my attitudes towards work, home and relationships. The result was surprising: I have taken up many tasks at the same time - maybe more than I should. Thinking about all this over and over again, I came to the conclusion that sometimes we carry burdens throughout life because we want to prove to ourselves that we will be able to carry them. And never stop to think if they are worth or at least necessary. 

Eventually I thought I should give up one

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force."

Source: KillingHope.org

USA Bombings Of Other Countries Since World War 2

• Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
• Guatemala 1954
• Indonesia 1958
• Cuba 1959-1961
• Guatemala 1960
• Congo 1964
• Laos 1964-73
• Vietnam 1961-73
• Cambodia 1969-70
• Guatemala 1967-69
• Grenada 1983
• Lebanon 1983, 1984
• Libya 1986
• El Salvador 1980s
• Nicaragua 1980s
• Iran 1987
• Panama 1989
• Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
• Kuwait 1991
• Somalia 1993
• Bosnia 1994, 1995
• Sudan 1998

                            Animals born in this world with the nature.Water,food,even our breath also given by the nature.It is provide things to satisfy our basic needs.Human is the animal who never satisfy with anything. Because of that human change the nature in unnecessary way by cutting trees and build various kind of buildings etc.

                                But nature also may felt that changes.Before human harm for the nature ,there wasn't much problems to the animals from the natu

Plants need water to grow.

When the water is abundant they grow more leaves and forget to produce fruits.

When the water is scarce they feel that they are going to die soon, they produce fruits to continue their generation. 

Just water your plants enough to keep their normal life!

last night(Beijing Time),she beat Maria sharapova and reached her second Grand slam final.she's amzing and all of us are proud of her.

yes,she is Li Na.she made the tennis history of china,even asia.no one ,women or men in Asia ,has ever entered into the single finals of Grand Slam.she did it again after Australian open in Janually this year.

Praises from all over the wold was given to her.she is still peaceful,she knows that a huge challenge is waiting for her on saturday this week. her opponetn