Sunday, September 21, 2008

learnenglish

This blog is meant for U. You may Enrich Your English (EYE). Here viewers' questions on English grammar will be answered, fascinating facts about English will be displayed, Idioms and phrases will be discussed etc.

Do you know that the English word with the most meanings is the simple 3-letter word 'set'. It has 51 meanings as a noun, 126 meanings as verb, and 10 meanings as a participle adjective.

Idiom of this week:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Origin: Used by Shakespeare in his Romeo and Juliet, 1594
Meaning: What matters is what something is, but not what it is called.