The Easily Confused English

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so- Gore Vidal Sometimes I think I act like a baby, I need 8 hours of sleep...

So...

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie I want to make a suggestion to the Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka to in...

Confused English

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real" - Neal Donald Been having a bad sore throat and pop...

Commonly Confused English

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one langu...

Sneek peek into personnel file

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and t...

Lost in Translation...

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -- Robert Green Ingersoll ...

World's Easiest Questions

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? -Albert Einstein How long did the Hundred Years War last? Which coun...

Funny English Signs

What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is on...

Lady Oscar

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. -Marcel Proust Was wondering through Yo...

A bit of English

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Learning English can be a bit ...

Acronym

Change in all things is sweet. -Aristotle Remember my earlier post about how the world of programming has the tendency to come up with wie...

The wonder of language

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner I just found out that the word Volvo was...

ENGLISH OF TOMORROW - EU ANNOUNCEMENT

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than Germ...

Answer

How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador From which animal do we get catgut? Sheep and Ho...