Top Items About English
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Origin of the word Nerd | "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a... | root | 147 | |
| Anecdotes | Tolkien`s Dwarves | Though best known as a fantasy writer, J. R. R. Tolkien, a mild-mannered professor of ancient languages at Oxford, was... | Anonymous | 56 | |
| Trivia | origin of the word Checkmate | ... | root | 54 | |
| Anecdotes | Anecdote about John Daly, Metaphors and Analogies | `60 Minutes` executive producer Don Hewitt on coining the term `anchor` during the 1952 national conventions in Chicago:... | Anonymous | 46 | |
| Anecdotes | Vegetables | In 1965, when the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) opened its doors, it instituted a "narrative... | Anonymous | 30 | |
| Images | Freshman English? | ... | root | 26 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Language, Government and Time | `Time` is the most commonly used noun in the English language, according to the publishers of the Concise Oxford... | Anonymous | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Gadsby | In 1937, Ernest Vincent Wright composed a novel entitled Gadsby: a 50,100-word work containing no instance of... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Lynne Truss: Zero Tolerance | In 2004, Gotham Press published a book about punctuation by former London Times... | Anonymous | 20 | |
| Anecdotes | Grand Panjandrum | One day in 1755 the celebrated actor Charles Macklin boasted to Samuel Foote that he could repeat virtually any speech... | Anonymous | 18 |
