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Hello friends,

It's Sunday - the day I look forward to. Not that other days are too hectic. Yet, Sunday is a day I choose to be a bit lazy, do things in a relaxed manner and do what I like too.

Yes, I would like to talk about something which may be new to some of you and well-known to the others.

English, you all know, is a language that has borrowed and continues to borrow words from other languages. This is the way it keeps growing.

Whenever anyone of us said 'Aiyo', we thought it was a Tamil utterance, and would have even felt embarrassed if we had used it while conversing with a native speaker of English.

No more of that embarrassment! 'Aiyo' has found its place in the Oxford English Dictionary! What more do you want?

'Aiyo" is defined as an exclamation used when you are surprised or upset. Interestingly, the dictionary has also got the pronunciation for 'aiaiyo'.

The Times of India writes, "The Oxford English Dictionary, or the OED, is 150 years old, has up to 600,000 entries, and its publisher - the Oxford University Press - calls it 'the definitive record of English language.' For purists who swear by it, if a word isn't in the dictionary, it isn't English. Well, bilingual English-lovers who are also well-versed in South-Indian languages no longer have to wince when they hear someone inject, "Aiyoh' during an exchange in the Queen's English!

'Aiyo', it's time for lunch! See you soon....

Good morning friends,

It's raining in Chennai... Yes, it's a great feeling to sit at my table and write something even as I sip my coffee.

English has been so much a part of me always. Being an English teacher/trainer has been a rewarding experience. The credit for this goes to my students. Unless we have the right audience, the show will not be a success.

Thank you students! Our journey continues....

Here we go to revise something important on 'Degrees of Comparison'.
Do you remember these 10 special Adjectives?

common, cruel, feeble, gentle, handsome
narrow, pleasant, polite, simple, stupid

We can make the above 10 Comparative and Superlative by either adding 'er' and 'est' or 'more' and 'most'.

Example: commoner - commonest
more common - most common

Both ways are correct for these 10 Adjectives. Store these words in your memory so that when you speak or write you could easily use them in the other two degrees.

See you soon again!

Good morning friends,

Even as we look forward to heavy rains in Chennai, let's learn a few synonyms of the word RAIN.

1. drizzle
2. downpour
3. downfall
4. cloudburst
5. deluge
6. shower

Word of the day :

TRUCULENT - harsh or easily annoyed or angered

The twelve tenses in English :