Interesting Readings

2016-06-26 05:32:55 "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm-Winston Churchill " Open / Comment

2016-06-23 06:08:39 Relations should be like two zeroes ...
When you try to add ,they are the same..
When you try to subtract ,they are still the same...
But when you try to divide , its impossible...
keep smiling..... Open / Comment

2016-06-15 16:09:37 Open / Comment

2016-06-15 16:08:21 Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.. Open / Comment

2016-06-15 16:06:44 Stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will" Open / Comment

2016-06-15 16:05:59 Great things never came from comfort zones Open / Comment

2016-06-15 16:04:28 HONESTY IS A VERY EXPENSIVE GIFT.DON'T EXPECT IT FROM CHEAP PEOPLE - WARREN BUFFETT Open / Comment

2016-06-15 07:28:08 Some interesting facts about English language

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The most commonly used English:-
Noun is “Time”
Preposition is “To”
Verb is “Be”
Adjective is “Good”


Flammable and Inflammable are synonyms.


Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter "e".


The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.


A Pangram sentence is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
eg. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog


Anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another.
Schoolmaster is an anagram of the classroom.
Have a nice day! is an anagram of Have a cyanide!
Mother-in-Law is an anagram of Woman Hitler
Eleven plus Two is an anagram of Twelve plus One
New York Times is an anagram of ofMonkeys write
The countryside is an anagram of No city dust here


A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward.
Was it a car or a cat I saw
Do geese see God?
Never odd or even


‘Pronunciation’ is the word which is mostmispronounced in the English language!


The word oxymoron itself is an oxymoron. The Greek word "oxy" means "sharp" and "moron" means "dull.


The opposite of Déjà vu is called Jamaisvu. It's a French word meaning “never seen”. It's the feeling or experience that a person knows or recognizes a situation, but that it still seems very unfamiliar or unknown.


English is the official language of the sky! It doesn’t matter which country they are from, all pilots speak in English on international flights.


There are more English words beginning with the letter 's' than with any other letter.(This is mainly because clusters such as 'sc', 'sh', 'sp', and 'st' act almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' only comes about halfway down the order, and the letter 'x' unsurprisingly comes last.


The word "mortgage"comes from a French word that means "Death Contract".


An ambigram is a word or words that can be read in more than one direction, where the word reads the same when upside down or turn over to form an entirely new word.
Eg. SWIMS

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2016-06-14 17:03:13 The Root of the Matter-African Story

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A porcupine came and asked a dog for food. The dog said he had no food but showed him a field of sugarcane belonging to a judge. 

"Eat as much as you want," said the dog, "but leave the roots intact so that the plants will grow again." The porcupine found the sugarcane sweet and juicy. He began to visit the field every day. In the beginning he ate only the stems, as directed by the dog, but after a few days he began to eat the roots too. One day the judge saw the destruction in his field and was very angry. 

He called the dog and accused him of destroying his crop. The dog said it was the porcupine that was to blame. The porcupine said he was innocent and suggested that the matter be settled in court. The judge agreed. 

The porcupine waited till winter set in. Then one chilly morning he went to the dog's house and told him the judge had summoned them. 

When they entered the judge's chamber the dog began to shiver with the cold. 

"See how he trembles, Your Honor," said the porcupine. "Isn't that a sure sign of guilt?" 

"What do you have to say for yourself?" asked the judge, looking sternly at the dog. 

But the dog's teeth were chattering with the cold and he could not speak. Thinking that his silence was an admission of guilt, the judge pronounced him guilty and kicked him out of the house. 

Whenever a dog barks incessantly, Africans say he is warning the judge that the porcupine has got into his field. 
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2016-06-14 16:43:44 Don't even never let someone tell you and make you believe that you cannot achieve your goals.

you have set a dream, you have got to protect it. when people cannot do something themselves, they tend to tell you that you cannot do it either.

you want something, go out there and get it Open / Comment