Articles: January 2007 Archives

Some Questions about English Language

What is the longest English word containing no letter more than once?
There are two 15-letter words that we know of: uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics.

What comes after primary, secondary, tertiary?
The sequence continues with quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. Words also exist for `twelfth order' (duodenary) and `twentieth order' (vigenary).

What is the difference between a 'street' and a 'road'?
The terms may frequently apply to exactly the same thing. However, 'road' is a general term, whereas 'street' is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application: a street typically has buildings on either side, and is paved or metalled.

What is the longest one-syllable English word?

The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).

The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.

The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote.

[via :www.askoxford.com]

Your Age With Chocolates


Do you like chocoIate ? yes you do , who doesn't ? ..Any way i found this cool email about calculating your age by how much you eat chocolates ...have fun and read it till the end.

DO NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE END ...
It will only take a minute
Do the maths as you read the instructions
Don’t read the end until you have done all the calculations
I promise it is not a waste of time, you will find this amusing.


1. How many times a week do you fancy eating chocolate?
(Choose between 1 and 9)

2. Multiply that number by 2

3. Add 5

4. Multiply by 50 – go on, get that calculator out!

5. If you have had your birthday in 2006, add 1756. If your birthday is still to come, add 1755.


6 Now take away the year you were born.


You should have a three digit number. The first is the number of time you fancy eating chocolate in a week.

The other two digits are ...


YOUR AGE!!!

2006 IS THE ONLY YEAR IN ALL ETERNITY WHEN THIS WORKS. SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS WHILE IT WORKS!

The Laws of Lifetime Growth


1. Always make your future bigger than your past.
2. Always make your learning greater than your experience.
3. Always make your contribution bigger than your reward.
4. Always make your performance greater than your applause.
5. Always make your gratitude greater than your success.
6. Always make your enjoyment greater than your effort.
7. Always make your cooperation greater than your status.
8. Always make your confidence greater than your comfort.
9. Always make your purpose greater than your money.
10. Always make your questions bigger than your answers.

By Lauryn Franzoni

About this Archive

This page is a archive of entries in the Articles category from January 2007.

Articles: December 2006 is the previous archive.

Articles: February 2007 is the next archive.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Discussions

HAYOONA in Why do we read Quraan, even if we can't understand a single Arabic word?!: Wow..very nice story.. I too read a lot of things in Quran and don't understand them, but now i will continue reading even if i don't understand...Thank you for the story..
Erin in Plastic Pollution And The Plight Of The Planet: BI: You need to consider several things before you assume all this information is false and therefore the situation is not as dire... First, there are no overhead pictures of the plastic swirl becaus
sat seeker in Al Rai vs Al Watan Tv: anyone seen the feed (scpc) for alrai? i'm having trouble getting the mux station. thanks!
masahira in Why are the keys arranged the way they are on the keyboard?: nice nice ;)
Bobby in Why Search ?: I found this site http://www.43marks.com- its like all my faves but better cuz you can add you own bookmarks and delete any bookmarks you don't like. Its free and totally customizable. Plus they give

Navigate

Categories

Monthly Archives

Pages

Ayah of the Day

Daily quote