◎◎◎ aubergine ⪢⪢
Aubergine is more common in the UK. In America we usually say eggplants, EGGPLANT. Now the color of the eggplant is like purple so the
word aubergine is
used to describe a color as well as a vegetable. Have you ever eaten aubergine? Is it good?
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=14787
○○○ was to ⪢⪢
Ashamed he decreed that the prince was
use a special hat that would cover his ears and that he was never to take it off. The prince was not to know about his donkey ears.
→ decree
#be
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○○○ myth ⪢⪢
Before science and psychology provided answers about our world, people
used _____ to explain strange things in nature; the creation of the world and human actions and emotions.
Different cultures had different stories to try to explain things.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=3709
○○○ third person ⪢⪢
He explains that English does not have a third person singular pronoun that does not identify as male or female.
Zimmer says that more and more "they" is being
used to replace the traditional phrase, "he or she".
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9415
○○○ pronoun ⪢⪢
"They" is a plural pronoun. For years, people speaking English have
used it as a singular pronoun. For example, "I am meeting a friend for coffee and I hope they are not late."
#singular_plural
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○○○ transgender ⪢⪢
For example, "they" is
used for people who identify as transgender. When former Olympic athelete Bruce Jenner took a female identity last year, he changed his name to Caitlyn Jenner.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9416
○○○ would ⪢⪢
The new
use of "they" would replace "he" and the word "their" would replace "his". For example, "They changed their name to Caitlyn Jenner."
#conditional ▲→▲
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○○○ Sunday ⪢⪢
In ancient Latin Sunday was Dies Solis for the Sun God but in the Christian era it was renamed Domonicas for lord's day.
Most of the Romance languages
use a desendant of that but in English and Germanic languages it is still named for the sun. #Greece
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10327
○○○ Cambodia ⪢⪢
In Cambodia, Chinese and Cambodian officials mark the start of a project to expand a naval base that U.S. officials fear could be
used by China's military.
2022-06-08
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20792
○○○ FDA ⪢⪢
News media report that the U.S. food and drug administration is expected to approve for emergency
use Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 by next week.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15325
○○○ gulp ⪢⪢
But if that doesn't work, like if there is not enough oxygen in the water, the axolotl has a backup, fully functional lungs. It can
use to gulp air from the surface. These organs are evolutionary leftovers from when its ancestors lived on land.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16131
○○○ jargon ⪢⪢
Again I'm sure you heard a teacher or a grammar book point out that with the third conditional you
use if plus the past perfect, plus would or wouldn't have and the past participle. That's a lot of jargon.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10013
○○○ #bookmark ⪢⪢
So I thought it'd be a great time to share some idioms and expressions that you might be hearing from your friends and coworkers and then you might want to
use yourself in order to express what's going on in your world and how you're feeling about.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15296
○○○ USSR ⪢⪢
Ukraine shares borders with Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, all countries that
used to have close ties to the former USSR.
→ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20169
○○○ 1962.08 ⪢⪢
The Cubans and Soviets began secretly establishing sites to launch nuclear missiles from Cuba. With the
use of these missile bases, the Soviet Union could have first strike capability against the United States.
→ site
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20287
○○○ beyond all doubt ⪢⪢
On Sunday, June 25, communist forces attacked the Republic of Korea. This attack hase made it clear beyond all doubt that the international communist movement is willing to
use armed invasion to conquer indipenteny nations.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=26343
○○○ ChatGPT ⪢⪢
ChatGPT is a conversational chat bot that in its own words "
uses deep learning algorithms and a massive amount of training-data to generate human-like responses to text-based prompts.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=24794
◌◌◌ Bitcoin
The online magazine wired.com reported that the bitcoin was worth about 434 dollars as of January 6. The company Juniper Research says there were 1.3 million
users in 2015. It estimates there will be 4.3 million
users by the end of the next year.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=3326
• Kim Jung-un
Kim Jung-un's abusive
use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. War is never something the United States wants. We don't want it now. But our country's patience is not unlimited.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=3324