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Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
IMPORTANT HEADLINES OF THE DAY - JANUARY 22. 2021
IMPORTANT HEADLINES OF THE DAY
1. FARMERS REJECT GOVT OFFER ON AGRI LAWS, WANT REPEAL
2. JOE BIDEN GETS CRACKING, SIGNS 17 ORDERS TO DUMP TRUMP POLICIES
3. 'SALEM EXPRESS' BOWLER NATARAJAN GETS A ROYAL WELCOME
4. OVER 6 DAYS, TN VACCINATED 42.3% OF IL HEALTH WORKERS
5. PROTEST FOR A CLEAN VELACHERY LAKE
6. OVER 1.1 CRORE HOUSES SANCTIONED UNDER PM AWAZ YOJANA
7. DIGITAL EDUCATION CANNOT SUBSTITUTE FOR REAL LEARNING - EDUCATIONIST ANITA RAMPAL
8. WHATSAPP & PRIVACY
9. BIDEN BOUNCE TAKES WALL STREET TO RECORD HEIGHTS
10. A CHANGED CLIMATE : US JOINS PARIS PACT
Selected & Compiled by SURI
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THE TIMES OF INDIA, CHENNAI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021
Thursday, January 21, 2021
ENGLISH, THE FUNNIEST LANGUAGE!
ENGLISH -the funniest language
We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
The one fowl is a goose but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may found a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren,
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,
So English, I fancy you will all agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.
- from the first page of a grammar book.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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