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How To Pronounce Any Country in English! | Pronunciation Lesson

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How To Say 50 Country Names (English Pronunciation)

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American English Pronunciation: How to Pronounce Countries and Languages

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Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It's about animals on a farm who rebel against their cruel human owner, Mr Jones, to create a society where all animals are equal.

After the rebellion, the pigs Napoleon and Snowball lead the animals, but Napoleon takes full control. Over time, the pigs became corrupt, changing the rules to benefit themselves. They even start acting like humans, walking on two legs and making deals with humans.

In the end, the animals realize that the pigs are no different from the humans they once hated.

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19M views · 403K reactions | How the English language would sound if silent letters weren’t silent | Who else wants a Silent Letter Day?🙋‍♀️😂 

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Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok? If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which has become the Oxford word of the year.

It is a term that captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media. The word's usage saw an increase of 230% in its frequency from 2023 to 2024.

Psychologist and Oxford University Professor, Andrew Przybylski says the popularity of the word is a "symptom of the time we're living in".

Brain rot beat five other shortlisted words including demure, Romantasy and dynamic pricing.

What is brain rot?

Brain rot is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging,

The first recorded use of brain rot dates much before the creation of the internet - it was written down in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.

He criticises society's tendency to devalue complex ideas and how this is part of a general decline in mental and intellectual effort.

It leads him to ask: "While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot - which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"

Henry David Thoreau, an American author, first wrote down the word in 1854

The word initially gained traction on social media among Gen Z and Gen Alpha communities, but it's now being used in the mainstream as a way to describe low-quality, low-value content found on social media.

Prof Przybylski says "there's no evidence of brain rot actually being a thing".

"Instead it describes our dissatisfaction with the online world and it's a word that we can use to bundle our anxieties that we have around social media."

Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Languages, says looking back at the Oxford Word of the Year over the last two decades "you can see society's growing preoccupation with how our virtual lives are evolving, the way internet culture is permeating so much of who we are and what we talk about".

"Last year's winning word, 'rizz,' was an interesting example of how language is increasingly formed, shaped, and shared within online communities.

"Brain rot speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time."

What other words made the shortlist?

Demure (adj.): Of a person: reserved or restrained in appearance or behaviour. Of clothing: not showy, ostentatious, or overly revealing

Dynamic pricing (n.): The practice of varying the price for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions; in particular, the charging of a higher price at a time of greater demand

Lore (n.): A body of (supposed) facts, background information, and anecdotes relating to someone or something, regarded as knowledge required for full understanding or informed discussion of the subject in question

Romantasy (n.): A genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or adventure alongside a central romantic storyline

Slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate

Other dictionary words of the year

Oxford University dictionary is not the only one to have a word of the year, last month Cambridge Dictionary announced that manifest was its winner.

The traditional definition of manifest included the adjective "easily noticed or obvious" and the noun "to show something clearly through signs or actions".

It now includes "to manifest" in the sense of "to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen".

It comes off the back of a global wellness trend endorsed by celebrities including singer Dua Lipa who said she manifested her headline slot at Glastonbury.

Collins dictionary also announced in November that its word of the year was brat - a word that has been everywhere over the last couple of months thanks to Charli XCX's viral album.

Brat is defined as someone with a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude".

It started as the name of her number one album, but it has arguably grown into a cultural movement for some, with people adopting the brat way of life.

Another internet phenomenon has inspired the Dictionary.com word of the year which is demure.

The word took off in August after content creator Jools Lebron, posted on TikTok abut her demure work outfit and mindful make-up.

The "very demure, very mindful" trend took off after that and the satirical idea pokes fun at the stereotypical ideas of femininity.

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What is Brain rot, the Oxford University 2024 word of the year?

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The term captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content.

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Self-made man : Thomas Alva Edison

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Self-made man: Walt Disney

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View maps and real-time results for the 2024 US presidential election matchup between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. For more information, visit cnn.com/election.

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5th November - Guy Fawkes Night-The Gunpowder Plot

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5th November - Guy Fawkes Night-The Gunpowder Plot

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Wherrol Flat only has around 300 residents but its annual scarecrow festival has a big impact. This year it features a Raygun-inspired breakdancer and a “Marilyn Muncrow”.

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27th September - Actress Maggie Smith Dies

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Below is the table of English irregular verbs listed in alphabetical order. Irregular verbs are different from regular verbs in the way they form the past simple and the past participle. Whereas we simply add -ed at the end of regular verbs, there is no such unified rule for the irregular verbs. That's why we have to memorize their three forms. You can read a more detailed explanation of the irregular verbs and do some special exercises which will help you learn the most common and a bit more advanced verbs.

Full list of English irregular verbs

Are these really all existing irregular verbs?

No, in fact, there are even more. We left out rarely used words you will hardly hear today like shoe - shod - shod.

Besides, if we add a-, be-, for-, in-, inter-, mis-, off-, out-, over-, pre-, re-, un-, under-, up-, with- to the infinitive of an irregular verb, its past forms will stay the same. For example, overhear is the same as hear: overhear - overheard - overheard. And misunderstand has the same forms as understand: misunderstand - misunderstood - misunderstood.

Why do some irregular verbs have more than one past form? Should we learn both?

Like any other modern language, English is constantly changing and transforming. First of all, there is a difference between British and American English. Some verbs are irregular in BrE but regular in AmE. For example,

Therefore if you learn British English choose -t between -t and -ed: learnt, smelt, knelt, dreamt, dwelt etc.

However, there are more complex cases. Sometimes the form depends on the meaning or on the collocation in which the verb is used.

The portrait hung on the wall.

The criminal was hanged.

We say hanged, but not hung when referring to prosecution.

The verb knit also has two possible forms. Knitted is mostly used as a participial adjective.

My grandma gave me a knitted sweater for Christmas.

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See an extended list of English irregular verbs and their past forms. "Lingbase" will help you learn and memorize irregular verbs effectively.

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8th September 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II Dies. 

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2. Where exactly is the "Hôtel d'York", where the Treaty of Paris was signed?

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