A class is divided into groups of four or five people. Groups need to find something in the room that begins with each letter of the alphabet. The first group to find items for all the letters in the alphabet reads the words aloud. The group wins if its words are correct. If not, t...
The symbol for “om” resembles a calligraphic inscription of the three Sanskrit phonemes that make up the word: “a,”“u” and “m.” Brahma, the chief Hindu god, is said to have first spoken the syllable, according to Swami Nirmalananda Giri's commentary on the Hindu holy text, the...
When alphabetizing a list of words with and without hyphens, the grammatical order can be confusing. The rule of alphabetizing words that contain hyphens is simple: ignore the hyphen. All major style guides including the Modern Language Association, American Psychological Association and the Chicago ...
Daytime Wedding Etiquette For anyone wishing to hold their reception outdoors, a daytime wedding is a natural -- and affordable -- choice. Martha Stewart defines a day wedding as a celebration that begins before 6 p.m., and wedding resource website The Knot advises that having a brunch, ...
If your friend begins to avoid talking to you, you may feel hurt, lonely and confused. Perhaps you have no idea why she suddenly does not want to speak to you, and desperately want to ask her. You might value your friendship so much that the idea your friendship is over is difficult ...
The introduction to a long quote begins on its own line at the margin. The source should be used as the introduction. If the date is not to be included in the introduction, it should be included in parentheses after the source's name. The introduction should end with a colon that leads...
At some point, everyone must make amends. Your road back begins with a sincere apology that your girlfriend might or might not accept. If she is open to your apology, you can work out actions that will inspire her to take you back. Acts of kindness and gestures that make her smile cou...
Distribute lyrics of a popular song that contains prepositional phrases. For example, “I’m a Believer” begins, “I thought love was only true IN FAIRY TALES, meant FOR SOMEONE ELSE but not FOR ME.” Have students replace all prepositional phrases with others that would make the song funny...
If you're familiar with the rule that most people know, then it would immediately make sense to say "a MBA" instead of "an MBA" since "MBA" begins with a consonant. But, if you say that phrase out loud to yourself, it sounds a bit funny. When we say the "M" in "MBA" it so...
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase. During operation, the system receives a candidate synon