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Bachelor party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mohit — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:47:17 GMT

How to say bachelor party in "other languages":

Quoted: A bachelor party (United States, South Africa)—also known as a stag party, stag night, or stag do (UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand); bull's party (South Africa); or buck's party or buck's night (Australia)—is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new partner might not approve of, or merely to spend time with his friends (often in his wedding party afterwards).

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e-Xplore Technical English!

mohit — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:07 GMT

Useful.

Quoted: Email Correspondence
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Retronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mohit — Thu, 31 May 2007 00:08:43 GMT

Nice.

Quoted: Examples of retronyms are acoustic guitar (coined when electric guitars appeared), or Parallel ATA (necessitated by the introduction of Serial ATA) as a term for the original Advanced Technology Attachment. World War I was called The Great War until World War II. The advent of satellite radio has prompted the term terrestrial radio.

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NPR : Practicing 'The Queen's Hinglish' in Central England

mohit — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:54:01 GMT

Heard about this on NPR yesterday morning.

Quoted: Baljinder Mahal is the author of the book <em>The Queen's Hinglish</em>, a guide to the blending of Hindi and English by Indian immigrants to the U.K. She meets with Rob Gifford in the town of Derby in central England for some practical lessons in Hinglish.

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Senate Votes to Make English the `National Language' of U.S.

mohit — Sat, 20 May 2006 17:51:43 GMT

Quoted: The Senate voted to make English the ``national language'' of the U.S. as part of legislation overhauling immigration policy. The measure, approved by a vote of 63-34, directs the government to ``preserve and enhance'' the role of English, without altering current laws that require some government documents and services be provided in other languages.

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Acronym Search - FAQ: Acronym Pluralizations

mohit — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:14:25 GMT

more on acronyms and apostrophes. seems like dropping the apostrophe is *slightly* preferred.

Quoted: In the several years I've been researching acronyms, I have not found many hard set rules where acronyms are concerned. As long as you follow ...

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acronyms and apostrophes

mohit — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:12:39 GMT

Quoted: One unusual modern use of the apostrophe is in plural acronyms, like “ICBM’s” “NGO’s” and “CD’s”. Since this pattern violates the rule that apostrophes are ...

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Tips - British English vs American English

mohit — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:15:12 GMT

I got here by searching for "collar stiffener". This site shows British English phrases and their equivalents in American English.

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