Word of the day: Endowment / Interesting Facts About English

Word of the day

Endowment: doação, dotação, dote, dom

Synonyms: aptitude, bent, talent, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, knack

“ The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.”

“ The college has a large endowment.”

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Interesting Facts About English

In English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".

If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."

Some words exist only in plural form, for example: glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pyjamas (but note that clothing words often become singular when we use them as modifiers, as in "trouser pocket").

The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".     (www.englishclub.com)

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Word of the day: Surmise / Interesting Facts About English

Word of the day

Surmise: conjetura, suposição, imaginação, cismo, suspeita, imaginar, supor, conjeturar, suspeitar

Synonyms:  guess, shot, supposition, conjecture

“My surmise is that the couple's “good news” is the announcement that they are going to have a baby.”

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Interesting Facts About English

The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth.. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm"

There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

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Word of the day: Hapless / Interesting facts about...

Word of the day

Hapless:  infeliz, sem sorte

Synonyms: unlucky, hard-luck, ill-fated, ill-starred, jinxed, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy

“She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.”

“The hapless motorist had barely paid his bill and driven away from the body shop when a truck sideswiped his car.”

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Hopeless:  desesperado, desanimado, incorrigível, impossível, incompetente.

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Interesting Facts About English

The most common letter in English is "e".

The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".

The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".

Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".

The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping") is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.

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