Word of the day:Tweak - floor / flour / flower

Word of the day

Tweak: beliscão, puxão,  beliscar, puxar, apresentar sintomas de abstenção por falta de droga, adaptar um programa, refinar

Synonyms:  to pinch (a person or a body part) lightly,  to poke fun at,  to injure slightly, pull, pluck

“We just wanted to tweak his original idea a bit.”

“He tweaked his ankle playing soccer.”

“My brother hates it when our grandmother tweaks his cheek.  “

(www.merriam-webster.com)

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floor  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	chão, assoalho
flour Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	farinha
flower  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	flor

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State birds: COMMON MOCKING-BIRD

State Bird 

of Arkansas, Florida,Mississippi, Tennessee andTexas

By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.

VOLUME II.

COMMON MOCKING-BIRD 
[Northern Mockingbird.]

ORPHEUS POLYGLOTTUS, Linn.
[Mimus polyglottos.]PLATE CXXXVIII.--MALE AND FEMALE.

It is where the great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk, crowned with evergreen leaves, and decorated with a thousand beautiful flowers, that perfume the air around; where the forests and fields are adorned with blossoms of every hue; where the golden orange ornaments the gardens and groves; where bignonias of various kinds interlace their climbing stems around the white-flowered stuartia, and mounting still higher, cover the summits of the lofty trees around, accompanied with innumerable vines, that here and there festoon the dense foliage of the magnificent woods, lending to the vernal breeze a slight portion of the perfume of their clustered flowers; where a genial warmth seldom forsakes the atmosphere; where berries and fruits of all descriptions are met with at every step;--in a word, kind reader, it is where Nature seems to have paused, as she passed over the earth, and opening her stores, to have strewed with unsparing hand the diversified seeds from which have sprung all the beautiful and splendid forms which I should in vain attempt to describe, that the Mocking-bird should have fixed its abode, there only that its wondrous song should be heard.

Continua: http://www.50states.com/bird/mock.htm#.Un13Lvnry8Q

Nicknames and mottos - continued

Os estados americanos têm “nickname” (apelido) e “motto” (lema). Vejamos alguns:

Nicknames                                                  Mottos

COLORADO

Centennial State

Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence)

CONNECTICUT

Constitution State

Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted still sustains)

DELAWARE

The First State/The Diamond State/Blue Hen State/Small Wonder

Liberty and independence

FLORIDA 

Sunshine State

In God we trust (1868)

GEORGIA

Peach State

Wisdom, justice, and moderation

Fontes:

http://www.50states.com/bio/nickname5.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0801718.html

http://en.wikipedia.org