2015-02-04 Evening: English/word trivia

Greg Malivuk
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Old English = Anglo-Saxon, Germanic language

drought: period of time with no rain
vein: the vessel in a body or plant that carries liquid
fowl: wild birds

Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote

old English = English that is old

Old English = Anglo-Saxon, the language spoken in England from about 600-1000AD
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1 NOON
2 close, live, tear, lead, wind, minute, row (these are homographs)
3 brunch (breakfast + lunch), motel (motor + hotel) (portmanteaux)
4 laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
  radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging)
5 casanova, boycott, saxophone (eponyms)
6 rhythm ('y' is a vowel in this word), cwm ('w' is a vowel)
  tsk
7 redivider (7 and 8 are palindromes)
8 Was it a car or a cat I saw? / A man a plan a canal - Panama.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/demetri-martins-palindrome-poem.html
9 party, boot (homonyms)

10 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (pangram - it uses all 26 letters)
11 the of and to a in that I it was is he for you on with as be had but they at his have not - top 25 written words in order
   T is the most common first letter
   E is the most common letter in English (e t a o i n s h r d l c u)
12 I
13 Wednesday, although, forty
14 "bet", "get" and "set" all three:
					rhyme
					are base forms of the verbs
					are irregular verbs
15 200,000
16 High School graduates: 23,000, writers may have 35,000 - 40,000
http://testyourvocab.com/

John said, "Hello." I said, "Hi, how are you?"

I had had "had" on my paper, but I corrected it.

Optional homework: punctuate the sentence in 17 to make it grammatically correct.
Also optional: test your vocabulary size using the website above
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Remember:

Homework for Thursday: p. 19 on the handout I gave you
			(p. 18 has explanation that will be helpful)