воскресенье, 4 ноября 2018 г.

Top 10 Acronyms That Will Make Your Life Easier

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To a noob (that's internet-speak for a newbie), social media can look like alphabet soup. While you've probably picked up on the staples like LOL and OMG, there are hundreds of acronyms out there, some of which are way less obvious and way more useful.
Fun fact: The term abbreviation is an umbrella term—so basically all these little shortened text-speak words we’re using now

пятница, 2 ноября 2018 г.

The strange coinages of money words


Some money words were minted millennia ago. Others are more re-cent.
The Coining of “Money”
Money comes from a mint, but, etymologically, both words come from the same source: the Latin word monēta, meaning “mint.” That word derives from Monēta, an epithet of Juno, queen of the Roman gods.

Idiom "salad years"