Archiwum miesięczne: Kwiecień 2021

  Do you know the word ‘couch potato’ (someone who watches a lot of TV while sitting on a sofa)? Well, a mouse potato is a term that describes someone who works on the computer all the time. Example: Ever since Peter set up his online company, he has been such a mouse potato.Czytaj dalej …

A palindrome is a word, a phrase, a number or some other sequence of characters that read exactly the same backwards as forwards, for instance madam, civic, racecar, kayak, acca, repaper. The longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary  was coined by  James Joyce  in Ulysses  for a knock on the door  -   tattarrattat.  The word has Greek origins and is derived from two words “palin” (again) and “dromos” (direction).Czytaj dalej …