AskOxford Website has an interesting section called World Of Words. It contains wonderful information and resources for the wordsmiths and avid readers.
I recommend the following:
Do not be surprised to see ‘Chuddies’ in Word of the year or a quote about sex on the street!
Every year Oxford Dictionary adds new words to its corpus. Considering the global situation, it is no surprise that the new words this season include ‘Sub-Prime Mortgage’ and ‘Credit Crunch’.
The other new words include:
Gorilla – the dominant contender within a particular sphere or activity
Locavore – those who eat only locally grown or produced food
Freegans – those who seek to retrieve and use discarded food and other goods
Vanity Sizing – assigning smaller sizes to clothing than is really the case to encourage sales
Slebs – CelebritiesFascinators – an item of ladies millinery
Muffin Top – a roll of fat visible above the top of a pair of women’s tight-fitting low-waisted trousers
Bragging Rights
Custard Creams
Once an King asked his wise men to find the true wisdom of life. They researched for years and sought the wisdom in near and distant lands. They came with the book of wisdom. The king said that it was too elaborate and long. We need a gist of it. The wise men again returned to research and exploration mode. When they returned this time, the wisdom capsule was a small booklet. The king felt that also not brief enough. Again the wise men went and returned with 4 words of wisdom. The king was happy and expressed satisfaction. He rewarded the wise men with royal honors and material wealth.
What were these words ?
“THIS TOO SHALL PASS”
These words are the only truth of life! Read More on This Too Shall Pass
Evergreen Verse
Everyone of us face challenges everyday. While facing those everyday issues and challenges, we need to keep our cool, refresh ourselves and look at the big picture. Kaka shared with me the following verse, the famous prayer of Alcoholics Anonymous. These words were also framed in a poster in Magnet’s Borivali Office.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference!
Life has been an exciting journey so far with great surprises and shocks. There have been occassions where I have not chosen the obvious road. Creating my own road or traveling a less traveled path has inspired me.
Robert Frost’s classic poem has always been my inspiration. The last paragraph is just awesome and sums up the journey of all success stories.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.