Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Temerity

noun[mass noun] - excessive confidence or boldness

Taken from BBC Sport:
e.g. Paulo Ferreira levels the scores after League One Colchester had the temerity to take the lead against Chelsea.

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Noun, pronoun or verb?

In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful,
  • noun - a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things.
    Example: Book, Cat.
  • pronoun - a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this)

  • verb - a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).
Wallahualam.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Selembu.

Taken from The Star Online:

SEREMBAN: A general worker with the Negri Sembilan Veterinary Services Department lost his right leg after being gored by a selembu, at the department’s facility in Jelebu Road here on Jan 19.

Due to the severity of the injuries inflicted by the animal (a cross between a gaur and cow), doctors had to amputate the victim’s leg below his thigh.

Baharudin Hassan, 51, narrated the incident when met at his house in Kampung Jiboi Baru here yesterday.

He said the incident occurred while he was replacing the damaged fence at the animal’s pen.

There were two female and a male selembu in the pen and Roslan Mansor, an assistant veterinary officer, was trying to lure the animals to the adjacent pen.

Baharudin said the facility also housed other animals like deer, camels, Balinese cows, squirrels and birds. – Bernama




Selembu.

noun - Selembu is a cross between a gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) and a cow.

To know more about selembu, go here.
Disclaimer: I am neither an English native speaker nor a qualified English teacher.