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Fossick, skerrick and derrick - terms you know?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 24 May

I’ve written before I think about ‘fossick’ seeming to be a word peculiar to Australia. Today I came across ‘skerrick’ which is very familiar to me but I don’t see it in print very often. I’m wondering if people know of skerrick...

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Bring It On - Monday

@n.J @Iam_jauntyjen (5452) 15 Mar

Hi, Mylot peeps! How's everyone getting on? I know some of you are still enjoying the weekend. I hope you are having a fruitful time in your neck of the woods. Monday has just started on my end, and I am so ready for it. New...

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Yesterday was international mother tongue day

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 21 Feb

Yesterday was international mother tongue day. When I asked my mother what was the first word I uttered she said maa. Maa in bengali means mother. So it is the language which the child connects with mother and father for the first...

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Did numbers always exist?

Rose nylon @Spatula11 (67) • United States 14 Feb

I was wondering how something have always existed. Language is only a few thousand years old. That sounds like a lot but when you consider how dinosaurs were around millions of years. How crazy is that? There were far different...

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Accident or wreck?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jan

America and Australia share a language but we also have quite a few differences in the way we use words and expressions. One I’ve noticed is the word ‘wreck’. I’ve read remarks like ‘we were in a wreck’ or ‘following a wreck…’ ....

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Words, words, words.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 21 Nov

When I read books in Spanish (my native language) it depends on where the writer is from whether I understand more or less. In Latin America we use some words that the Spaniards brought with them centuries ago and they are...

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Hey, more of …..” do you know what this is ? “

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11263) • United Kingdom 17 Nov

It was fun finding out what different names people gad for things, in a post last week. I gave been thinking of a few more things that may baffle folks ….so here goes ….do you know what these are. …..? Dandelion and...

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Indian netas/politicians should improve their language

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 4 Sep

Neta/ politicians in India have started using slanderous language in public, especially against women. Today a BJP MLA went to the extent of calling a woman police officer a pet dog. This is totally unacceptable. The politicians...

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Language Barrier

luisadannointed @luisadannointed (11842) • Philippines 29 Aug

Do you also interact with people who don't comment on your blog? Well I do! Hahahahah! Why? For the reason that their blog posts are easy to comprehend, funny but true, and when they replied to my comments it is easy to...

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Gelatin, Jelly and Jam

Jim Bauer @porwest (112774) • United States 4 Aug

It is fun, and funny to me, sometimes, because we are all, often times, worlds apart, and so we sometimes call the same things different things—and sometimes it can be confusing even if we mostly know what someone is referring...

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Is there a word that you just hate !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11263) • United Kingdom 30 Jul

You know how it is , people are talking ….and then suddenly you hear it …..the word you hate ! Sometimes it is a word that brings back bad memories, it may be a word that you can’t say properly, it may just be a word that makes...

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I Need Your Best Suggestion.

Md. Rakibuzzaman @MRRSPMMTZOWE3 (65) 21 Apr 25

My mother tongue is called ''Bangla'' so I am not fluent in English language specially when I speak. As I work in a buying house so when buyers visit in our office, I face problem to speak with them. If I ask you then what is the...

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When children don't know the meaning of words

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Apr 25

The photo has nothing to do with the discussion. I am reading an intriguing book called ‘Too Close to the Falls’ by Catherine Gildiner. At one point, she manages to get the better of a bully by stabbing him in the hand with a...

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Help needed please – especially from the Indians out there!

Fleur @Fleura (34935) • United Kingdom 10 Feb 25

I have a lot of things I inherited from my mother, and many of those she inherited from her parents. Every now and then I will attempt to sort through a few of them but it all takes so much time! Here is one thing I would like to...

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Something New

Thelma @thelme55 (79311) • Germany 18 Jan 25

But actually not for me. I enrolled myself for learning Italian language and it will start on Tuesday next week. We are now living nearby an adult education school and so I was thinking of refreshing my Italian language which I...

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Christmas in Welsh.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 11 Dec 24

I'm going to teach you how to say some Christmas phrases in Welsh, from the picture above. I will write the English in normal type, then the Welsh in bold, and the pronunciation in italics. (What I like about the picture above...

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Its DUOLINGO Time

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 17 Nov 24

Well, I have several more posts I want to make, but I keep getting alerted that I have not done DUOlingo today. I don't want to lose my streak, so I guess I have to break from mylot. I wish the learning spanish would come...

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Have you ever had a dream in a foreign language?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 29 Oct 24

It may sound weird, but I sometimes dream in English. It cannot be denied that English is not my first language. But then I teach it to my non-native speaker students. In my mind, it is inevitable that I dream of speaking English...

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Dreaming in English

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 29 Oct 24

I have been teaching English for more than a decade, either online or offline. When it comes to learning, I always make sure that it should be fun. Nowadays, most Chinese parents are forcing their children to learn the second...

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Funny: Dreaming in English

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 27 Oct 24

This morning, I was having an online class with my 10 year-old Japanese student. He asked me how to improve his fluency. I told him to think in English when speaking. He needs to refrain from translating Japanese words or phrases...

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