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  #𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐀𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐈𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐔𝐂 📌 𝗜𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗺: 𝗧𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗲 📌 Meaning: If you eat humble pie, it means you speak or behave in a way which tells people that you admit you were wrong about something. To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to face humiliation and subsequently apologize for a serious mistake. To eat humble pie means to make a humble apology and accept humiliation. 📌 For example: 🌬️ After vehemently arguing, he discovered his basic illogicality and had to eat humble pie before his associates. 🌬️ After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie. ©️ 𝗢𝗸𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗰𝗵𝗲     𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵

  𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘃𝘀. 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱: 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 Which of these words ,'Devoted' or 'Devout' is correct in the context of religion? The word 'Devoted' is an adjective which means giving someone or something a lot of love and attention. 🧶 For example, Dr. Efosa was devoted to her sister.  However, using the word "Devoted" to describe someone who is deeply religious or has a very strong belief in a religion is a misuse of semantics (Meaning)  e.g.  📌 Mr. Sam is a devoted Christian (inappropriate)  📌 Mr. Sam is a devout Christian(appropriate)      📌 Mr. Ibrahim is a devoted Muslim (inappropriate) 📌 Mr. Ibrahim is a devout Muslim (appropriate)                                                "Devout" is appropriate in a Religious context Look up the two words in any lexicon to know the difference. 🧶 ...

 Tʜᴇʀᴇ-ᴛʜɪᴇʀ-ᴛʜᴇʏ'ʀᴇ: ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪғғᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ 🧶 The rule of _Their-There-They’re. This is a very common mistake that even the native English speakers make.  This basic rule is taught in primary and secondary schools yet it is one of the confusing parts of English. Students often make mistakes in the spellings and use of an apostrophe. It is rather simple. ‘There’ is used to denote position or place. For instance- “I am going there” denotes a place by ‘there’. It can also be used as a pronoun such as “There are some sweets remaining”. ‘Their’ is the possessive form for the pronoun ‘They’. It shows possession of something by a group. A simple example is “It is their book”. ‘They’re’ is like any other contraction of a word using an apostrophe. The pronunciation matches the other two but the meaning is different. ‘They’re’ stand for ‘They are’. For instance- “They’re going tomorrow”. The same concept stands for you and you’re.  This is another trending mistake among English speakers....

 #𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝘼𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙐𝘾 ᴹᵃʸ ᵉᵈⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ 📌 Word: Hᴏʀs ᴅ'ᴏᴇᴜᴠʀᴇ 📌 Transcription: /ˌɔː ˈdɜːv/ pronounced as in orrr-derv  📌 Meaning: Hors d'oeuvre is an appetizer or a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine. Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the meal, or they may be served before seating, such as at a reception or cocktail party. It's also called 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞́𝐞. 🧶 Hors d'oeuvre is a small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or creamed foods, often served on crackers or small pieces of toast, for eating at cocktail parties or other gatherings where drinks are served with no other food. 📌 Example: Vegetable, Fruit Trays, Cheese Trays,  grapes, turnovers, empanadas, samosas, and egg rolls. 📌 Word Class: Noun. 📌 Origin: Hors-d'œuvre in French literally means "outside the work"—that is...

  #𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝘼𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙐𝘾 ᴬᵖʳⁱˡ ᵉᵈⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ 📌 Word: Dᴏᴏᴍsᴄʀᴏʟʟɪɴɢ 📌 Transcription: /duːmˌskrəʊlɪŋ/ as in dum-skroh-ling 📌 Meaning: Reading the news on social media and expecting it to be bad – so much so that you become obsessed with looking at updates  Doomscrolling is when you become obsessed with staying up to date with bad news.  It’s a combination of the noun “doom” and verb “scroll”. 📌 Example: I was _doomscrolling_ on Twitter today while reading about Covid-19 cases. I think it’s why I feel so anxious now. 💨 It’s easy to get caught up in a doomscrolling cycle of despair, even as we feel that we should do something. 📌 Origin: Doomscrolling can be defined as "an excessive amount of screen time devoted to the absorption of dystopian news."  According to finance reporter Karen Ho, the term is thought to have originated in October 2018 on the social media site Twitter.  However, the word may have earlier origins, and the phenomenon itself pre...

 Oᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ ᴠs. Gᴀᴘ ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ: ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ɪs ɢʀᴀᴍᴍᴀᴛɪᴄᴀʟ 🤓 ? I have heard lots of people who still make this mistake and they actually think its the correct, because they hear people saying it. Gap teeth and open teeth are both incorrect, that is, they are neologisms invented by Nigerians. Therefore when next you  see someone with such set of teeth don’t say ‘you have open teeth/gap teeth’ instead say    📌‘you have Dɪᴀsᴛᴇᴍᴀ as a noun 📌 'You are gap toothed' as an adjective. The Yorubas commonly call this open teeth _EJI_ Igbos call it _EZE-  OkNGBAWARA._ ©️ 𝕆𝕜𝕒𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕌𝕔𝕙𝕖       𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕒𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕒𝕔𝕙

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