20 Weird English Words. The Arts English is a wonderful language with some of the strangest pronunciation rules and words that come from many other languages. This is a list of 20 weird English words. 1. Erinaceous Like a hedgehog 2. Loudness and clarity of voice 3. To testify under oath 4. A trinket or knick-knack 5. floccinaucinihilipilification Estimation that something is valueless. 6.
Pertaining to idle talk 7. An attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love. 8. Pertaining to midnight 9. A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash 10. A person who deals with things lacking importance (pronounce the ‘h’ like a ‘k’). 11. The day before yesterday 12. Deception or trickery 13. A weak or foolish person 14.
Covered with dust 15. A social climber 16. Rude or rough play 17. Unfamiliar, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful. 18. To be poisoned by cheese 19. Someone who deserves to be hanged 20. The abuse of military power or authority. Jamie Frater Jamie is the founder of Listverse. #60 – How to be a free thinker. In the same way a man can be chained to an oak tree, a mind can be chained to an assumption, a religion, a political party, or any idea of any kind. But the idea, like the tree, should not be blamed. They are inanimate things and are good or bad only in how they are used by the living. Instead it is the chain that must be questioned, along with the motivations of people who work to close minds while calling themselves educators. A mind is unique in the world for its infinity of ideas, for it can be used to think about almost anything in a million different ways. Any act that deliberately confines a mind to a singular way of seeing the world can not be acting for good.
Like the rules to a new board game, we read these rules with our minds at half-power, as our goal is to learn and follow. The beginning of wisdom starts with asking two questions. Without questions we can’t discover the chains we’ve hidden. The first challenge is the fear of being wrong Ready? Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style. Fun and Cheap Ways to Get Creative When You’re Bored. Happy New Year! Time is short, you have a pile of things to do, and you’re feeling a little less than stellar. Seems like every drop of creative energy has all but dissipated into thin air. And you’re oh-so-bored with your ever increasingly mundane, do-the-same-thing-every-day lifestyle. So what can you do to amp up your creative juices and get some of the good stuff flowing down on the page (writers), on the canvas (painters), in your job (anyone), and in your life in general (everyone)?
Fire up your fingers and get painting Finger painting, that is. Cost It’s cheap to get a basic set of primary colors — around $8. Dust off the pencils and get drawing It's easy to do anywhere you go. A pencil and some paper. Pull on your tennis shoes and get moving A little bit of physical action may be all you need to spark your creativity. If you’ve got the shoes already, this one’s totally free. Change up the scenery and get traveling Even if it’s only to a different neighborhood. Paper and a pen. The Quick 10: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About <em>Harry Potter</em> With Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince coming out in the U.S. later this week, it's time to out myself as a Slytherin Supporter.
Maybe you already knew that. Nothing against Gryffindors - I'm no Voldemort or anything - but I always tend to like the villains a little more than the do-gooders. To celebrate Harry and Co.'s sixth movie (and sixth book), here are a few facts that you may not have known about the gang in gold and red (and maybe a couple about the set in silver and green). 1.
Hermione's name was almost "Hermione Puckle. " It has a sour tone to it, doesn't it? 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9. There's obviously a ridiculous amount of Harry Potter trivia out there, and since Harry Potter fever is about to sweep the world again, we might as well share it. 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Harry Potter Book Series. 30 Books I’m Glad I Read Before 30. In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives. I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site. A medley of both fiction and nonfiction, these great reads challenged my internal status quo, opening my mind to new ideas and opportunities, and together they gave me a basic framework for living, loving, learning and working successfully.
If you haven’t read these books yet, I highly recommend doing so. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert – Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for decades, and he shares scientific findings that just might change the way you look at the world. What are your favorite books? Photo by: Katie Harris.
Books. Literary Criticism. Public Domain. Spoilers Don’t Spoil Anything | Wired Science I've got a weak spot for pulp fiction, especially when it involves a mysterious twist. I like unironic thrillers and mediocre Agatha Christie imitations. Basically, I like any kind of fiction that lets me forget for vast stretches of time that I'm sitting in an airport terminal. I read these books in an unusual way: I begin with the last five pages, seeking out the final twist first. The twist won't make sense at this point, but that doesn't matter -- I enjoy reading the story with the grand finale in mind. I've always assumed that this reading style is a perverse personal habit, a symptom of a flawed literary intelligence. The experiment itself was simple: Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego gave several dozen undergraduates 12 different short stories.
Here are the results: The first thing you probably noticed is that people don't like literary stories. A few random thoughts on this data: 1.) 2.) 3.) Learn to Speed Read in Just a Few Hours | Learn This - StumbleUpon. I’m not one for making big New Year’s Resolutions as I am a continual goal setter and look at life plans and goals on a weekly or at least monthly basis, so I don’t need one day a year to pretend I’m actually going to change the year, I just always do that.
However, there is one that I can’t encourage others enough to look more seriously at and that is about reading. I hope I can inspire a few people to put this on their own goal sheets for the year. Thank you everyone for a wonderful 2008, may your 2009 be even better! Background One of the most important things in my life was discovering speed reading. I had read about blazing speed readers and how people were reading books in just a few minutes and I never took it seriously, not even for a second for many years.
After all, I took me a few minutes to read a page so those types of claims were just ridiculous to me. What is Speed Reading Speed Reading Myths Broken 7 Steps for Learning to Speed Read 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Scanning and Keywords. LitReactor.
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