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The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English word families [1] which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education , and teachers of such students.
Of course, the way people put words together can be pretty funny, too—just take the funniest quotes of all time. And brush up on your grammar knowledge with these acronym examples and funny ...
These 115 funny quotes and top funny sayings will make you laugh on every occasion. Enjoy these clever quotes from comedians, actors, authors, and TV shows.
CD-ROM includes Oxford Academic iWriter, 500 extra words and phrases, words spoken in British and American English, iGuide, full range of academic entries via 'Mini Dictionary' mode, Oxford Academic iWriter, practice exercises, PDFs of the Word Lists and a bibliography of all the texts in the Oxford Corpus of Academic English.
mdr: Esperanto version, from the initials of multe da ridoj, which translates to "lot of laughs" in English. mdr: French version, from the initials of "mort de rire" which roughly translated means "died of laughter", although many French people also use LOL instead as it is the most widely used on the internet. [61] [62]
The General Service List (GSL) is a list of roughly 2,000 words published by Michael West in 1953. [1] The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English. The target audience was English language learners and ESL teachers. To maximize the utility of the list, some frequent ...
Rumena Bužarovska (2012) What's Funny: Theories of Humor Applied to the Short Story, Blesok, 2012, ISBN 978-9989-59-377-2 Louis R. Franzina (2002) Kids Who Laugh: How to Develop Your Child's Sense of Humor, Square One Publishers, ISBN 0-7570-0008-8
For many years, the bits of vandalism and/or fun that struck people's fancy were kept here on a page called "Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense" (BJAODN). In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia, having been created on January 26, 2001. [1] Here is the original explanation of the page: