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I was eating one of my favourite fruits, persimmons, when it struck me that Malaysians always giving weird names to things/fruits/vegetables. The thing is that, those names didn't reflect anything about those things/fruits/vegetables that they want to describe. In here, I want to share with all of you some of those weird names that we are giving to normal things/fruits/vegetables.

1. Persimmons

Persimmons is also known as the 'fruits of God'. In Malay, we call it 'pisang kaki'. 'Pisang' means bana

expectorsmither

Meaning: a blog or blogger 

Example sentences:

1. Try to write more expectorsmithers to sharpen your writing skills. 

2. Expectorsmithers should be creative - don't try to copy things from the Internet. 

Oringin: Expector Smith is the blog moderator on MyEC. He's not really an English teacher or a native English speaker, though. He loves English so much that he's been a volunteer mod with MyEC for such a long time. He's been trying to write more blogs, and read blogs by other members

When I was a student of senior high school, I often went to my friend’s house after school. Going to her house, I would go across a small and short bridge. It is a paved road and its shape is like a small hill. So, before I got onto the bridge, I couldn't see anything in front of me.

I liked to bring my music player to school since I was fond of music. At that time, I still used walkman and cassette. I listened to music when break time. But, several times I saw that there were my friends who were

L u c i c t o p u s

Meaning: BrE, AmE [lutsiktəpəs] Prounounciation

Example:

1. If a partner of the lucictopus woman doesn't appreciate her, he will be treated very badly.

2. Once you reach a lucictopus state, your life will turn upside down.

Origin: Luci is a mom of two little kids, who is busy almost 24/7. Since she lives on her own, she must usually

My Eponym = mistory

Meaning: Plot of a story suddenly comes, which you immediately write and wish to share with your readers.

For example:

1. I let my friends know the plot of ‘mistory’ via social media, the immediate response I received, “publish it at once ‘dude!”

2. The best ‘mistories’  come to me when my heart feels gloom and miss something/someone.

Origin: mishaikh (mi sheikh) is a Pakistani, student (in the sense of a learner) and an humble blogger on EC  who always tries to pick the knowled

Writing Challenge ~ My Eponym

My Eponym

danbritanisation

Meaning: the aptitude to feel familiar with the British accent even when you're not a native speaker.

For example:

1. Even though Rob was born and lived many years in Brazil, he always felt a danbritanisation, when talking to your English father;

2. Mary travelled the world in search of a special boyfriend, who is an authentic Londoner. Now, she's struggling to develop her danbritanisation.

Origin: Daniel is a self-taught English student, blogge

We have a new vocabulary reference section on EnglishClub:Eponyms. An eponym is a word (usually a noun) that comes from a person's name. The person may be real or fictional/mythological.

Many English words are eponyms. You probably know some of them, such as atlas, braille, and cardigan. This month, we're going to invent words based on our own names! Please join me in the fun. 

Your Task 

1. Review a few of the eponyms in EnglishClub's list. 

2. Think of something YOU are known for or are good at. D

i think websites like Facebook and Twitter
it's damage our lifes
and many other websites
from this kind
we should stop
think when i want to know
some new people
add them on face
chat with them instead of phone or meet them
have fun by meeting them
and go out

if we still like that, we shouldn't blame any other one 

Just ourselves 

Although it contains many advantages, don't deny this  

Didn't like yesterday's disappointed ,today I get so much new knowlage.It include the culturre different between East and West.I also realized that lots of phrases I used before is Chinglish,not English.The expression may confused the audience.

The first lesson today is writing,learned the skills how to make note or leave message to others.(add more later)

Thanks Arif, Anah, Mishaikh, Humza and others who commented on my last blog with emotions, distorted factual comments and Arif with logic and reasoning. It has inspired me to write the next blog in the sequence of Pakistan's ideology as a nation. 

Arif, rightly said that Jinnah was a secular initially (which India is today), but wrong circumstances (as Jinnah perceived) made him communal and a hard line Muslim politician i.e not by will but because of Hindu domination he chose to convert into a m

Joe’s Papa

Everybody at home was very happy and overjoyed when Joe was born. We loved caring him, whenever he used to cry we rush sensing the reason, played, laughed & smiled with him, never left him alone. He had become everyone’s darling I and Mary were doing private jobs. I was doing night shift job, so mary & my parents took the charge of looking after Joe in day and at night time. He missed me more often till he turned 2+, slept all his childhood nights with mommy and grandparents. Luckily,

Today marks the 4^th anniversary of the March 11th,  2011 Tōhoku earthquake.  On this day in 2011 the strongest recorded earthquake to ever hit Japan struck off the coast near Sendai, Japan.

All over Japan people will honor those who died in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.  Today at 2:46 PM  local time we will all pause for prayer or reflection on the losses suffered on that day 4 years ago.  It makes me very sad to think of the deaths and injuries that happened that March afternoon.  More

I was tagged by the younger bro Tayzar on first week. He wants me to write about my secret habits.
I don't know well how to write something in english. I wish I did.
I've been trying to learn english for year but I haven't succeeded it yet.
I have arrived at the condition of learning that I need to take some moe english courses. May I ask you for your some advice.
1. Every night, I believe someone thinks about me before they go to their beds.
2. I always get up late. I never get up early.
3. I had bee

Pursuing your goals is much like

Putting together ajigsaw puzzle.

While you ultimately seek the

Final outcaome, you still have to

Work piece by piece.

- Since you will spend most

Of your time trying to make

Progress, you must enjoy what

You are doing in order to finish.

Take joy from the process, and

use the small successes to fuel

your continued efforts.

My hobby is reading. I am in the B.Sc.(Zool)Q(Credit). I am myanmar native. I live in yangon township in Insein. I have read some of them again and again. Reading has become a habit. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Reading is thicking with some one else's head instead of one's own. Writing is like religion. Every man who feels the call must work out his own salvation. I usually read Myanmar novels, short stories. They are interesting and enjoy able. M

 The palace's owner was coming out driving his own luxury car, as he was doing every day, it was the duty of the guard that giving a greeting to him, because he was working a guard in his palace.  As usually, the palace's owner didn't reply the greeting.

 One day the guard was picking up a bag containing scraps of food, the palace's owner saw him, but he didn't look as usual, as if he didn't see anything.

 The next day the guard found a bag in the same place, the food which was inside it seemed

   Toady is the first day of my English study ,A little disappointed ,better yet ,lots of challenge to me.

    First，want to share what make me disappointed.Before I went  here ,I have reconized that what make me a dumb English speaker is the language envrionment .Because we lack of the opportunity to use English,we only input ,without any output ,although we have learned so many words,grammers,speaking skills ,when we in front of a native English speaker,our brain became blank.we hardly open our

Even if English is the second most-spoken language in the world, there are more people learning English (secondary speakers) than people who claim English as their first language. Here's where people tend to score well and poorly on tests of English from Education First.

Green and blue countries have higher proficiency levels than yellow and orange ones.
- Scandinavian countries, Finland, Poland, and Austria fare best.
- The Middle East generally lacks proficient English speakers.

HOW WOULD Y

 သေျပသီးေကာက္
၀ါဆို၀ါေခါင္ ေရေတြၾကီးလို႕
သေျပသီးမွည့္ ေကာက္စို႕ကြယ္။
ခရာဆူးခ်ံဳ ဟိုအထဲက
ေမွ်ာ့နက္မည္းၾကီး တြယ္တတ္တယ္။
ေမွ်ာ့နက္ဆိုတာ ခ်ိဳနဲ႕လားကြဲ႕
ေျမြနဂါးေတာင္ ေၾကာက္ဘူးကြယ္။
တို႕လည္းေၾကာက္ေပါင္ အတူသြားစို႕
အုန္းလက္ႏြားေလး ထားခဲ့မယ္။
သြားကြယ္ ၊ သြားကြယ္။

              မင္းသု၀ဏ္
             ၁၁ ဇြန္ ၁၉၃၁

    Rose-Apple gatherers
July,August-rain and flood-
Let's go pick the ripe rose-apple.
Hi! Take care! In thorns and mud,
That's where big, black leeches grapple.
Leeches? Pah! The hornless t

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