◎◎◎ 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?
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◎◎◎ Zorro ⪢⪢
This story takes place in Spanish California during the first part of the 1800s. The
word 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish. The story of Zorro is an old legend from Spanish California.
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○○○ Kathy Larsen ⪢⪢
This song was written by Bart Howard in 1954. And it was first name, 'In Other
Words', and for some reason it didn't take off at all. But in 1962 it was renamed the first five
words of the lyric, 'fly me to the moon'. And it was an overnight success.
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○○○ fly ⪢⪢
_____ me to the moon. Let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other
words, hold my hand. In other
words, baby, kiss me.
#song #lyrics
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○○○ A.D.S. ⪢⪢
From VOA Learning English, this is the education report. American language experts have chosen "they" as the 2015
word of the year. The American Dialect Society, or A.D.S., voted on the issue at a conference in Washington.
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○○○ 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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○○○ Anna Matteo ⪢⪢
Metcalf says the decision for the
word of the year is not based on science. Instead, he says the A.D.S. chooses from
words that express the concerns and stories of the past year. For VOA Learning English, I'm Anna Matteo.
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○○○ adore ⪢⪢
Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more. You are all I long for, all I worship and _____. In other
words, please be true. In other
words, I love you.
→ adorn
#song #lyrics
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○○○ Monday ⪢⪢
Monday is moon day. Roman mythology had the moon goddess Luna which is why French has Lundi, Spanish Lunes, but here English substituted its own old English
word for moon, Mona. #front #Greece
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○○○ homage ⪢⪢
Trenet's French version paid _____ to the changing moods of the sea while Lawrence, by adding the
word 'beyond' to the title, created lyrics about a lover finding for a lost love.
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○○○ turmoil ⪢⪢
An extraordinary situation in Seattle; Calls for racial justice and turmoil across the country have resulted in a takeover of one part of Seattle as the standoff continues there's now a war of
words between the President and local officials.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20171
○○○ 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.
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• youglish.com
A great next step is to go to youglish dot com. It's a collection of YouTube videos with subtitles and you can search for a particular
word or phrase and then filter by American English.
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