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Friday, August 31, 2018

List of most important verbs in English language

Verbs represent actions or conditions and can be regular or irregular. Some of the most important verbs are the following: To ask, be, call, come, do, feel, find, get, give, go, have, know, look, make, need, say, see, take, tell, think, try, use, want, work

Thursday, August 30, 2018

List of easy to use and important nouns

List of easy to use and important nouns


  1. area
  2. book
  3. business
  4. case
  5. child
  6. company
  7. country
  8. day
  9. eye
  10. fact
  11. family
  12. government
  13. group
  14. hand
  15. home
  16. job
  17. life
  18. lot
  19. man
  20. money
  21. month
  22. mother
  23. Mr
  24. night
  25. number
  26. part
  27. people
  28. place
  29. point
  30. problem
  31. program
  32. question
  33. right
  34. room
  35. school
  36. state
  37. story
  38. student
  39. study
  40. system
  41. thing
  42. time
  43. water
  44. way
  45. week
  46. woman
  47. word
  48. work
  49. world
  50. year


Which cuisine is your favorite?

 A cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a culture or region. Each cuisine involves food preparation in a particular style, of food and drink of particular types, to produce individually consumed items or distinct meals. A cuisine is frequently named after the region or place where it originated.
  1. Ainu
  2. Albanian
  3. Argentina
  4. Andhra
  5. Anglo-Indian
  6. Arab
  7. Armenian
  8. Assyrian
  9. Awadhi
  10. Azerbaijani
  11. Balochi
  12. Belarusian
  13. Bengali
  14. Berber
  15. Buddhist
  16. Bulgarian
  17. Cajun
  18. Chechen
  19. Chinese cuisine
  20. Chinese Islamic
  21. Circassian
  22. Crimean Tatar
  23. Estonian
  24. French
  25. Filipino
  26. Georgian
  27. Goan
  28. Goan Catholic
  29. Greek
  30. Hyderabad
  31. Indian cuisine
  32. Indian Chinese
  33. Indian Singaporean cuisine
  34. Indonesian
  35. Inuit
  36. Italian American
  37. Italian cuisine
  38. Japanese
  39. Jewish
  40. Karnataka
  41. Kazakh
  42. Keralite
  43. Korean
  44. Kurdish
  45. Laotian
  46. Latvian
  47. Lithuanian
  48. Louisiana Creole
  49. Maharashtrian
  50. Mangalorean
  51. Malay
  52. Malaysian Chinese cuisine
  53. Malaysian Indian cuisine
  54. Mediterranean cuisine
  55. Mexican
  56. Mordovian
  57. Mughal
  58. Native American
  59. Nepalese
  60. New Mexican
  61. Odia
  62. Parsi
  63. Pashtun
  64. Polish
  65. Pennsylvania Dutch
  66. Pakistani
  67. Peranakan
  68. Persian
  69. Peruvian
  70. Portuguese
  71. Punjabi
  72. Rajasthani
  73. Romanian
  74. Russian
  75. Sami
  76. Serbian
  77. Sindhi
  78. Slovak
  79. Slovenian
  80. Somali
  81. South Indian
  82. Sri Lankan
  83. Tatar
  84. Thai
  85. Turkish
  86. Tamil
  87. Udupi
  88. Ukrainian
  89. Yamal
  90. Zanzibari

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Foreign accent reduction/elimination, American accent development/acquisition

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The Kitchen, The Bedroom, the Bathroom, American Clichés, Human Anatomy, Baby’s nursery, American Presidents and their Pets, Internet terms, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Ping Pong, Pool, Track & field, Swimming, Badminton, Antonyms, Astrology, Automobile parts, Birthstones, Car Brands and slogans, Colors, Corporate slogans, Diction mouth positions, Elements, the 4 kinds of sentences, Homonyms, Hygiene, Irregular verbs, List of Animals, Baseball overview, Meal times, Metric conversions, Musical instruments, Numbers, Phonetic spellings, Proverbs, Sentence focus, Social Media sites, Software terms, Spices, State Flowers, State Capitals and Governors currently in office, State Mottos, State Nicknames, State Songs, Street Addresses, Synonyms, The 12 verb tenses, The Bill of Rights, Weather terms, Yoga, American Citizenship Exam and answers. Hostels, Hotels, Hollywood Emergency Numbers, Motels, Museums

Monday, August 13, 2018

Twitter Glossary

Twitter Glossary

@
The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets: "Hello @twitter!" People will use your @username to mention you in Tweets, send you a message or link to your profile.

@Username
A username is how you're identified on Twitter, and is always preceded immediately by the @ symbol. For instance, Twitter Support is @TwitterSupport.

Alerts
Twitter Alerts enable public safety agencies to inform people during emergencies by highlighting critical time-sensitive content with notifications and a unique look.

bio
Your bio is a short (up to 160 characters) personal description that appears in your profile that serves to characterize your persona on Twitter.

Block
If you block a Twitter account, that account will be unable to follow you or add you to their Twitter lists, and you will not receive a notification if they mention you in a Tweet.
bug
An internal error in our site code and functionality. If you see one, please point it out to @TwitterSupport by sending us a message.

cashtag
A cashtag is a company ticker symbol preceded by the U.S. dollar sign, e.g. $TWTR. When you click on a cashtag, you'll see other Tweets mentioning that same ticker symbol.

Connect tab
A personalized experience providing a fast and easy way to connect you to accounts you may be interested in, or to reconnect you with old friends on Twitter through your device’s address book. Read more about the Connect tab.

deactivation
If you deactivate your account, it goes into a queue for permanent deletion from Twitter in 30 days. You may reactivate your account within the 30 day grace period.

Direct Messages
Direct Messages are private messages sent from one Twitter account to another account(s). You can use Direct Messages for one-on-one private conversations, or between groups.

follow
Subscribing to a Twitter account is called “following.” To start following, click or tap the Follow icon next to the account name on their profile to see their Tweets as soon as they post something new. Anyone on Twitter can follow or unfollow anyone else at any time, with the exception of blocked accounts.

follow count
This count reflects how many people you follow and how many follow you; these numbers are found on your Twitter profile.

follow(s)
A follow is the result of someone following your Twitter account. You can see how many follows (or followers) you have from your Twitter profile.

follower
A follower is another Twitter account that has followed you to receive your Tweets in their Home timeline.

geolocation, geotagging
Adding a location to your Tweet (a geolocation or geotag) tells those who see your Tweet where you were when you posted that Tweet.

hacking
Gaining unauthorized access to an account via phishing, password guessing, or session stealing. Usually this is followed by unauthorized posts from the account. Hacked accounts are sometimes referred to as "compromised." Learn more about what to do if your account has been hacked or compromised. Read more about how to keep your account safe.

hashtag
A hashtag is any word or phrase immediately preceded by the # symbol. When you click or tap on a hashtag, you'll see other Tweets containing the same keyword or topic.

header photo
Your personal image that you upload, which appears at the top of your profile.

Home
Your Home timeline displays a stream of Tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter.

impersonation
Online impersonation (pretending to be someone you're not) that is intended to deceive is prohibited under the Twitter Rules. Parody accounts are allowed.

like (n.)
Liking a Tweet indicates that you appreciate it. You can find all of your likes by clicking or tapping the Likes tab on your profile.

like (v.)
Tap the heart icon to like a Tweet and the author will see that you appreciate it.

list
From your own account, you can create a group list of other Twitter accounts by topic or interest (e.g., a list of friends, coworkers, celebrities, athletes). Twitter lists also contain a timeline of Tweets from the specific accounts that were added to the list, offering you a way to follow individual accounts as a group on Twitter.

mention
Mentioning other accounts in your Tweet by including the @ sign followed directly by their username is called a “mention”. Also refers to Tweets in which your @username was included.

mobile web
Twitter's website tailored to fit your mobile device. Visit it at mobile.twitter.com. When you visit mobile.twitter.com from a smartphone or tablet, you’ll experience the data-friendly Twitter Lite.

mute
You can mute accounts; mute words, phrases, usernames and hashtags from your notifications; and mute Direct Message notifications.

night mode
Night mode for Twitter features a dark-colored palette that is optimized for experiencing Twitter comfortably in low-light situations. The night mode feature is available on twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, and Twitter for Android.

Notifications, notifications
The Notifications timeline displays your interactions with other Twitter accounts, like mentions, likes, Retweets and who has recently followed you. If you request it, we send notifications to you via email, SMS, or through the Twitter for iOS or Twitter for Android apps.

parody
You can create parody accounts on Twitter to spoof or make fun of something in jest, as well as commentary and fan accounts. These accounts must disclose that they are parody, fan or commentary accounts in order to comply with our strict policy against impersonation.

phishing
Tricking someone to give up their username and password. This can happen by sending someone to a fake sign-in page, a page promising to get more followers, or just simply asking for the username and password through Direct Message or email.

pinned Tweets
You can pin one of your Tweets to the top of your profile page to keep it above the flow of time-ordered Tweets.

profile
Your profile displays information you choose to share publicly, as well as all of the Tweets you've posted. Your profile along with your @username identify you on Twitter.

profile photo
The personal image associated with your account. It's also the picture that appears next to each of your Tweets.

Promoted Accounts
Promoted Accounts present suggested accounts you might want to follow as promoted by our advertisers. These appear in your Home timeline, and via Who to Follow, search results and elsewhere on the platform.

Promoted Moments
Promoted Moments are Moments that are authored by a brand and featured in the Moments guide. They are clearly marked as “Promoted”.

Promoted Trends
Promoted Trends display time-, context-, and event-sensitive trends promoted by our advertisers. These appear at the top of the Trending Topics list on Twitter and elsewhere on the platform, and are clearly marked as "Promoted".

Promoted Tweets
Promoted Tweets are Tweets that are paid for by our advertisers. These appear in your Home timeline, at the top of search results on Twitter and elsewhere on the platform, and are clearly marked as "Promoted".

Promoted Videos
Promoted Videos are videos within Promoted Tweets that are paid for by our advertisers. These appear in your Home timeline, at the top of search results on Twitter, and elsewhere on the platform, and are clearly marked as "Promoted”.

protected Tweets
Tweets are public by default. Choosing to protect your Tweets means that your Tweets will only be seen by your followers.

reactivation
You may reactivate a deactivated account within 30 days of the deactivation date. After 30 days, deactivated accounts are permanently deleted.

reply
A response to another person’s Tweet. Reply by clicking or tapping the reply icon next to the Tweet you'd like to respond to. A direct reply count is displayed next to the reply icon of a Tweet, and indicates the total number of replies the Tweet has received.

Retweet (n.)
A Tweet that you forward to your followers is known as a Retweet. Often used to pass along news or other valuable discoveries on Twitter, Retweets always retain original attribution.

Retweet (v.)
The act of sharing another account's Tweet to all of your followers by clicking or tapping on the Retweet button.

short code
A five-digit phone number used to send and receive Tweets via text message. Find your short code.

SMS
Short Message Service (SMS) is most commonly known as text messaging. Learn how to send a Tweet via SMS.

spam
Refers to a variety of prohibited behaviors that violate the Twitter Rules. Spam can be generally described as unsolicited, repeated actions that negatively impact other accounts.
suspended

Suspended accounts have been prohibited from using Twitter, generally for breaking Twitter Terms of Service.

text commands
When using Twitter via SMS, these commands allow you to access most Twitter features with simple text keywords. Learn the Twitter text commands.

timeline
A timeline is a real-time stream of Tweets. Your Home timeline, for instance, is where you see all the Tweets shared by your friends and other people you follow.

timestamp
The date and time a Tweet was posted to Twitter. A Tweet's timestamp can be found in grey text in the detail view of any Tweet.

top Tweets
Tweets determined by a Twitter algorithm to be the most popular or resonant on Twitter at any given time. Read more about top Tweets.

trends
A Trend is a topic or hashtag determined algorithmically to be one of the most popular on Twitter at that moment. You can choose to tailor Trends based on your location and who you follow.

Tweet (n.)
A Tweet may contain photos, GIFs, videos, and text.

Tweet (v.)
The act of sending a Tweet. Tweets get shown in Twitter timelines or are embedded in websites and blogs.

Tweet button
Anyone can add a Tweet button to their website. Clicking this button lets people on Twitter post a Tweet with a link to that site. Learn how to add the Tweet button to your website.

Twitter
An information network made up of short messages (including photos, videos, and links) from all over the world. Sign up for an account.
Twitter emoji
A Twitter emoji is a specific series of letters immediately preceded by the # sign which generates an icon on Twitter such as a national flag or another small image.

Twitter Polls
Twitter Polls allow you to weigh in on questions posed by other people on Twitter. You can also easily create your own poll and see the results instantly.

unfollow
See "follow”.
URL, URLs
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a web address that points to a unique page on the internet.

verification
A process whereby a Twitter account receives a blue check icon to indicate that the creator of these Tweets is a legitimate source. Verified accounts include public figures and those who may have experienced identity confusion on Twitter.

who to follow
Who to follow is an automated list of recommended accounts we think you might find interesting, based on the types of accounts you already follow and who those people follow

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Idiomatic expressions

327. Walking on eggshells: It’s so quiet in the library, it’s like we’re walking on eggshells.
328. Weary bones: Those seniors have weary bones, go easy on them.
329. Weigh a ton: That salad is going to weigh a ton, with all that dressing on it.

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Very this, very that, very hot, very cold, very new, very old

Instead of using the word very, try the following words instead:

  • very bright: luminous
  • very careful: cautious
  • very clear: obvious
  • very cold: freezing
  • very colorful: vibrant


Friday, August 3, 2018

Pronunciation key



Middle English
from long V
from short V
ī : i
child /aɪ/
divine
mine
children /ɪ/
divinity
mineral
ē : e
ea : e
serene /iː/
dream
serenity /ɛ/
dreamt
ā : a
nation /eɪ/
sane
national /æ/
sanity
ō : o
goose /uː/
school
gosling /ɒ/
scholarly
oa : o
ō : o (Latin)
holy /oʊ/
cone
know*
holiday /ɒ/
conical
knowledge
ū : u
south /aʊ/
pronounce
southern /ʌ/
pronunciation