( i ) : Homographs & Heteronyms and ( ii ). The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS FOR 2013
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Edukondalu P
Oct 16, 2013, 4:43:11 AM10/16/13
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dear all,
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is UP .
Homographs & Heteronyms
Good one.
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.
A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.
You think English is easy??
I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT!
Read all the way to the end.................
This took a lot of work to put together!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, or meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.
(Pehaps , this may be a repeat to some of you)
I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT!
Read all the way to the end.................
This took a lot of work to put together!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, or meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.
(Pehaps , this may be a repeat to some of you)
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is UP .
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word "UP" has real special meaning.
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word "UP" has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now, my time is UP, so.......it is time to shut UP!
Now it's UP to you what you do with this email. KEEP IT UP.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now, my time is UP, so.......it is time to shut UP!
Now it's UP to you what you do with this email. KEEP IT UP.
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Subject ( ii ) : The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS FOR 2013
13 Amazing Guinness World Records 2013
Here are 13 eye-popping images of the biggest, fastest, longest, weirdest and wackiest record breakers recognized in 2013
and featured in the 2014 edition of Guinness World Records.
01. The smallest roadworthy car measures 63.5 cm (25 in) high, 65.41 cm (2 ft 1.75 in) wide and
126.47 cm (4 ft 1.75 in). It was created by Austin Coulson (USA) and measured in Carrollton, Texas, USA.
02. The most body modifications for a married couple is 77, held by Victor Hugo Peralta (Uruguay) and
his wife Gabriela Peralta (Argentina), who married on 21 February 2008. These 77 modifications
consist of 50 piercings, four microdermals, 11 body implants, five dental implants, four ear expanders,
two ear bolts and one forked tongue.
03. The longest beard on a woman belongs to Vivian Wheeler (USA) and was measured at
25.5 cm (10.04 in) from the follicle to the tip of hair on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, Milan, Ital.
04. The largest rideable bicycle has a wheel diameter of 3.3 m (10 ft 9.92 in) and
was built by Didi Senft (Germany) and measured at Pudagla, Germany
05. The fastest crossing of a tightrope by a dog was 18.22 seconds and was achieved by
Ozzy (a Border Collie/Kelpie cross) on 1 Feb 2013 at at F.A.I.T.H. Animal Rescue, Norfolk, UK.
06. Steve Sansweet (USA) has amassed an estimated 300,000 unique items at Rancho
Obi-Wan in northern Calif. USA. As of 15 May 2013, only 90,546 items have been accurately
audited and catalogued a number sufficient enough, however, to beat the previous Guinness World
Records figure by a factor of four. Sansweet estimates that the cataloguing process will take
years to complete, as his collection continues to grow.
07. Leilani Franco (UK/Philippines) performed 25 full-body revolutions while in the
chest-stand position in one minute at the Box Theatre in Soho, London, UK, 11 March 2013.
This physically demanding exploit requires the contortionist to lie with their chest against
the floor and with their back arched in such a way that their legs stretch over the body and
the feet touch the ground in front of the face; the legs then make a full revolution around
the body before returning to the original starting position.
08. The shortest donkey in terms of height is KneeHi (born 2 Oct. 2007), a brown jack who measured
64.2 cm (25.29 in) to the top of the withers at Best Friends Farm in Gainesville, FL. USA on 26 Jul 2011.
A registered miniature Mediterranean donkey, KneeHi is owned by Jim and Frankie Lee (USA).
09. The largest living cat is Hercules, an adult male liger (lion x tigress hybrid) currently
housed at Myrtle Beach Safari, a wildlife reserve in South Carolina, USA. In total length, he
measures 3.33 m (131 in), stands 1.25 m (49 in) at the shoulder, and weighs 418.2 kg (922 lb).
10. The smallest dog living, in terms of height, is a female Chihuahua called Milly, who measured
9.65 cm (3.8 in) tall on 21 Feb. 2013 and is owned byVanesa Semler of Dorado, Puerto Rico.
11. The tallest ride able motorcycle measures 5.10 m (16 ft 8.78 in) tall from the ground to
the top of the handlebars. It was constructed by Fabio Reggiani (Italy), and the motorcycle
was ridden over a 100-m course at Montecchio Emilia, Italy.
12. The largest chair measured 30m (98 ft 5 in) tall. It was made by XXXLutz together
with Holzleimbauwerk Wiehag GmbH (all Austria) and was completed and presented in
St. Florian, Austria.
13. The tallest useable pogo stick is 2.91 m (9 ft 6 1/2 in) achieved
by Fred Grzybowski (USA) at the Toronto International Busker Festival.
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