Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Wind, Wind and Wind



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Wind ( noun)-   moving air.

The wind was strong yesterday.



Wind ( verb) -  to roll or coil (thread, string, etc.) into a ball, on a spool, or the like(often followed by up).

I forgot to wind my watch

Wind  ( verb) to become ultimately:

Keep up your antics and you might wind up in jail

Fair , Fair and Fare


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 http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fair

 1.
 free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice:
a fair decision; a fair judge.



 2.
legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules:
a fair fight.
3.
moderately large; ample:
a fair income.
4.
neither excellent nor poor; moderately or tolerably good:
fair health.
5.
marked by favoring conditions; likely; promising:
in a fair way to succeed.


  6.
Meteorology.
  1. (of the sky) bright; sunny; cloudless to half-cloudy.
  2. (of the weather) fine; with no prospect of rain, snow, or hail; not stormy.
7.
Nautical. (of a wind or tide) tending to aid the progress of a vessel.
8.
unobstructed; not blocked up:
The way was fair for our advance.
9.
without irregularity or unevenness:
a fair surface.
10.
free from blemish, imperfection, or anything that impairs the appearance, quality, or character:
Her fair reputation was ruined by gossip.


 http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fare








noun

1.
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
2.
a person or persons who pay to be conveyed in a vehicle; paying passenger.
3.
a person who hires a public vehicle and its driver.
4.
food; diet:
hearty fare.
5.
something offered to the public, for entertainment, enjoyment, consumption, etc.:
literary fare.

Three Meanings of Batter



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BATTER

1. hit hard

2. what you coat  tempura, pancakes  and onion rings with.

3. in baseball, the one at the plate who hits the pitch with the bat. There is only one at a time.

Waist or Waste?

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Waste or waist?

Waste = garbage, useless, discard

Waist= torso, where your belt goes. Where cowboys hang their six shooters. 




Monday, July 10, 2017

Bare and Bear


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Bare means naked, but to bear is to carry something. A bear is also a brown furry animal, but most people keep that one straight.


https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/bare-bear/




Some people insist on the right to bear arms. Others want to arm bears. Still others too portly to bare arms.

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Some Humor With Your English Lesson




This might take 30 seconds to sink it but you will learn an important distinction.

Do Due Dew


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Do is a verb. Meaning you are performing an action.


I don't like to do the dishes.

Due. When something has to be done or returned.

My library books are due on Wednesday. 

Dew- small drops of water that form on the ground and other surfaces outside  esp. during the night


But now I found myself enjoying it: the full moon, the sound of crickets,the long grass already wet from the evening dew.


Laughter Means Understanding

  I was teaching last week and for the first time in months I felt the urge to share the original version of the English blooper post.  You ...