During a long drought, a group of villagers gathered to pray for rain.  All the people gathered, but only one young man came with an umbrella.  That's faith. When you throw a child in the air, they laugh because they know you will catch them.  That's trust. Every night we go to bed, not knowing […]

What is rhopalic text?  Well, here's a nice example of a piece:- "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness." Rhopalic describes text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than the one preceding it.  This text starts with 1 […]

Before you read the last bit, read the sentence and see if you can work out what is extraordinary about it; apart from the long words!! https://plus.google.com/u/0/117176908342196183611/posts/BR2zap72WxG

In the UK "shit" is a relatively mild swear word nowadays, but in America it's used for lots of different things:-    Thanks to Chewks

The BBC has published an article about words that originated in India, these include... B - bandana, bangle, bazaar, bungalowC - catamaran, char, cheroot, chintz, chit, chokey, chutney, cummerbund, curryD - dinghy, dungareesG - guru, gymkhanaH - hullabalooJ - jodhpur, juggernaut, juteK - khaki, kedgereeL - lootP - pariah, pundit, purdah, pyjamasS - shampooV - […]

HATE has four letters, but so does LOVE.ENEMIES has seven letters, but so does FRIENDS.LYING has five letters, but so does TRUTH.HURT has four letters, but so does HEAL.