Here are the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary’s top-10 phrases used in our language today that have been taken from one of the masterful Bard’s works.
#1: Green-Eyed Monster
#2: In a Pickle
#3: Love is Blind
#4: Salad Days
#5: Wear My Heart on My Sleeve
#6: There’s the Rub
#7: Cruel to Be Kind
#8: Wild Goose Chase
#9: Dogs of War
#10: Strange [...]
In the United States, every sixty seconds:*
American men will eat a total of 7,398 hot dogs; 12,989 pounds of beef; 40 pounds of tofu; and 1,500 Dunkin’ Donuts. Oh yes, one-and-a-half (1 ½ ) men have heart attacks.
315,432 American men light up cigarette; 150 men fire up joints; 23 start to do lines of [...]
The Merriam – Webster on-line dictionary has put together a very useful Top 10 List of the most commonly confused words. Here’s the list:
Flaunt / Flout
Affect / Effect
Deserts / Desserts
Stationary / Stationery
Flak / Flack
It’s / Its
Pore / Pour
Fewer / Less
Flounder / Founder
Principal / Principle
Here’s the link to [...]
Here’s a list of the 25 most-requested summertime songs in America.
1.Summer Lovin’ - Grease
2.Summertime, Summertime - Jamies
3.Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer - Nat King Cole
4.Happy Together - Turtles
5.Summer in the City - Loving Spoonful
6.School’s Out - Alice Cooper
7.Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
8.Surfin USA - Beach Boys
9.California Sun - Riverias
10.Summertime’s Calling [...]
Have you ever wondered where the name Google came from? Do you know the origins of Research In Motion? Well, here’s a list of some well-known company names with their name origins explained.
3M - from the company’s original name, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
A&W Root Beer - named after founders Roy Allen and Frank [...]
AskMen.com listed the top 10 Canadian icons “that have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.” In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose, beaver, Tim Horton’s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey.
In our own circles, we have been asking [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Here’s my humble opinion of the top ten movies - “the must sees” - at this special time of year.
It’s a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol (1938 or 1951)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Santa Clause
Elf
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Pass the eggnog….
Thursday, November 13, 2008
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infini-tive.
5. Avoid clichés like the plague.
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Also, too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
8. No sentence fragments.
9. Contractions aren’t necessary [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
In December 2005, CG&A COMM published their research on uncovering the most significant quotes through the ages. Here is an annotated list (in no particular order) of the ‘Top-Ten-Quotes-of-All-Time.’
Do onto others as you would have others do onto you. The Bible – This is known as the ‘Golden Rule’. It captures the fundamental belief of [...]