Interesting English

Для 5 класу The Sleeping Beauty   Once upon a time there was a King and a Queen who had all the luxury as that money could buy. But their most treasure possession of all was their beautiful baby daughter. In fact they were so proud of her that they invited all the fairies in the kingdom to her christening. It wasn’t every day that the fairies had a chance to get to such a grand occasion, so they made a most of it and made up the beautiful party dresses especially for it. The christening was such a happy and colourful occasion. The little Princess slept quietly in her cradle and didn’t make a sound. “I’ve never seen such a beautiful little baby,” said the queen of the fairies. When the Queen and the King heard this, it made their hearts swell with pride. “Thank you all so much for coming here,” said the King and then he led them all to the great banqueting hall for a fabulous feast in honour of his little Princess. The fairies have just picked up their ni...

English language has a huge data of interesting words. Find out some really amusing words in English as the articles unfolds to increase your vocabulary. As the cliché goes, 'English is a funny language' because of its inscrutable structure. The very funny English language has eccentricities that seem incomprehensible at times. Solving a puzzle from the New York Times sometimes makes you wonder about 'abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper's profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here's a reason to be sanguine'; the English language has an insurmountable data of interesting words for its readers. Here's a list of interesting words in English that will help to improve your puzzle-solving techniques, vocabulary and to you can have productive things to do at home. Interesting Words List Agrestic : Someone who is rude, uncouth and uncultured. Ubiquitous : W...

The oldest words in the English language are around 14,000 years old, originating in a pre-Indo-European language group called Nostratic (“our language”) by experts. Words from this language group that survive in modern English include apple ( apal ), bad ( bad ), gold ( gol ), and tin ( tin ).  The word  arctic  is derived from the ancient Greek word for bear,  arktos . The reason is that the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, lies in the northern sky.  In Old English, the word  with  meant “against”. This meaning is still preserved in phrases such as “to fight with”.  No English words rhyme fully with  orange , <!–  purple , actually, curple and hirple rhyme with purple –> silver , or  month  (there are, however, some partial rhymes, or pararhymes, for these words, such as salver  for  silver  and  lozenge  for  orange ).  The longest English word that...