with smoke and smoke detector went off. Although both of us (me and my brother) have received fire training, none of usresponded to the alarm. Annoyed, she stormed through the house in search of us.She found us in bathroom, washing hands over the loud buzzing of smoke alarm, she asked us to identify the sound."It's smoke detector", we replied in unison."Do you know what that sound means"? She demanded."Sure", my brother replied. "Dinners ready"One of my thirty something cousin recently got his first pair of glasses "just to see at night". When he went to renew his driver'slicense, he thought he could pass the eye exams without them.Carefully evading the chart, he was positive he had passed until the man administering the test said," Let me give you a hint, Sir.Those are numbers, not letters".When my friend was eight, his father gave him a haircut but made a terrible mess of it. Later at a barber shop where they wentto repair the damage, my friend proudly announced that his father had cut his hair. The barber took one look and asked, "whatdid he use-a knife and fork".LOUD MAD OR SADThe psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test.Speaking specifically about manic depression, he asked, "How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screamingat the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?"A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, "A basketball coach".Compiled By:Varun Rajput,First Year,Computer Science & Engineering.1) What's the difference between Electrical Engineers andArchitects?A: Electrical Engineers build weapons, Architects build targets.To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, theglass is half empty. To the Engineer, the glass is twice as big asit needs to be@002-43) C Crowding one's life does not always enrich it. ST13JAN)
♦ DIVVY/LanguageLogoleptic Verbiv@rism Of Wordaholic LeXiG@MailidG Lytgliaphi1eid!What is common between the words plica, vug, ogee, redd and mecca? Well, they all have letters in reversealphabetical order! Just like this, there are more interesting words out there waiting for you. And no!We haven't cooked up all this philological stuff - look up into your dictionary and you will be baffled!When John Keats wrote 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;its loveliness increases, it will never' (Endymion, Book 1), hemeant many odd things that can constitute things of beauty.Obviously it depends, well, on one's own interests. For alogophile (Gr logos word + philos loving), enjoying the magicand music, the sounds and stories of words is something soenthralling and that is precisely (you would have surmised bynow) what we will be dealing with here.And puhleez! This is not another hurly-burly exposition whichgives you ten tenets for increasing your vocabulary! The aim is tointroduce you to some unspoken facts about English wordswithout knowing which your 'wordy' life can not be so exciting."There Is No Butter In Butterfly": Misleading WordsEver misspell a word in your school report that cost you agrade? Ever make a typo in an office memo for which you paid aheavy price? D6n't be disheartened if you think you may nevermaster the whimsies of the English language. Take comfort in thefact that there's no universal god of orthography who oncedecreed, "And ye shall spell potato as p-o-t-a-t-o." Indeed, thereare many words which have been formed precisely through thisprocess, that is to say, erroneously since once they weremisspelled (interestingly, correctly spelled words have beenlost!). Take niddering (a coward; the word comes fromME/Medieval English nothing which was once a correctlyspelled word), helpmeet (a helpmate esp. wife; comes from thephrase "an help meet for him" (i.e. a help suitable for him); it wasincorrectly written as "an help-meet for him" and erroneouslyinterpreted as "a helper for him") and derring-do (daring acts,from ME dorryng do (daring to do) misprinted as derrynge doand interpreted as a noun form).But then, there are words which directly appear quitemisleading. For instance, the Canary Islands got their name fromdogs (and not the bird Canary!), a light-year is a unit of distance(not time), and a triolet is a poem of, well, eight lines. These arered-herring words that appear to mislead us in the beginning butif we look deeper everything becomes obvious. Triolets are socalled because the key line in the poem appears thrice. Find-outwhat makes 'attic salt' (graceful wit), prick-song (written song)and histrionic (related to acting) so different in meaningcompared to what can be perceived from their spellings.Also, mostly variants of more common words, some wordsmay appear to be misspellings of everyday words. They will addto your verbal arsenal, especially if you are playing a game likeScrabble, or may come in handy if your keyboard happens tohave a broken key! Take passible (susceptible to sensation),monestrous (related to mammals which experience one estrus),assoil (pardon), eagre (high tidal wave), calendar (a clothmachine),quean (disreputable woman), dragoon (a trooper) andnavvy (laborer). So check out what meaning do hight, angary,stile, cingular, specie, alarum and wether carry?Equally confusing are the words formed by the processknown as back-formation. A back-formation is a word created byremoving rather than adding an element, e.g. the verb "to edit"has been formed from the noun "editor" (unlike, for example, theusual way nouns are created, e.g., 'lover' from the verb 'love').Back-formations are often denounced when they first appear, butmany times they fill a real need. Consider emote (back-formationfrom (b.-f.f.) emotion), sass (b.-f.f. sassy), aesthete (b.-f. f.aesthetic), dentulous (b.-f.f. edentulous) and esthesia (b.-f.f.anesthesia)."Is There A Vowel-less Word?": Rare And Ridiculous WordsThere are words which have very unusual arrangement of letters.Take verisimilitude (a word with alternating consonants andvowels), DIOXIDE (a word which reads same upside down),indistinguishability (a word with six 'i's; also, indivisibility), yob(rowdy youth; a word coined by spelling a word backwards; alsomho), syzygy (shortest word with three 'y's), gyp (the only wordmade up entirely of letters with descenders; a descender letter hasprotusions to lower row of writing like g, y, q, p, as against b, d,h, etc.), spendthrift (the longest word whose normal and phoneticspellings are same; phonetically it is SPEND-thrift), brougham(the most silent letters in a row; pronounced as 'broom'), logology(If you assign a value of 1 to the letter a, 2 to b, and continue upto 26 for z, logology averages 13.5, the perfect midpoint of thealphabet) and kine (plural of cow; a word having no letter similarto its singular, cow); they all have something unique to notice!Coming to the last word kine, we have some more wordswhich have irregular plurals as numen (pl. numina), opus(opera/opuses), virtuoso (virtuosi), occiput (occipita), trousseau(trousseaux), chrysalis (chrysalides), os (awra, ossa and ossardepending on the meaning), lemma (lemmata) and cherub(cherubim).If we forget to mention words in which all vowels occuronce and only once, then this section may appear incomplete. Itis not difficult to find them out but the fact remains that they arenot in abundance although we neglect their beauty when we comeacross them everyday. Most of them are suffixed with 'ious' and'ion', start with a vowel itself, are plural forms or proper nounslike abstemious, ossuaries, arterious, facetious, annelidous,armigerous, epuration, inquorate, uncomplimentary, education,euphoria, cauliflower, Uvarovite, Mozambique, Euphorbia andPraseodymium. 'Perfect and pure' examples in this category aresomewhat hard to find. My list includes subcontinental, duoliteraland permutation. Can you find more?A tougher challenge may be to find words which 'have novowel in their spellings (no acronyms please!). One may quotethree-letter words which often end with 'y' as in fly, why, pry andcry. But what about gyp (fraud), cwm (natural amphitheatre),syzygy (pair of opposites; the word is also a great wrist exerciseif written in cursive!) and crwth (a violin). But then people forgetthat as per modern English grammar, 'w' and 'y' are semi-vowels.Most of the vowels-less words are of Welsh origin wherein, thesetwo letters are actually vowels (Here, note that one Welshconsonant with no English equivalent is 'LL' as in Lloyd andLlewellyn!).Continuing our word game, here's an exercise for you, can(sRuitti)No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.(2oo2-o3)
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