Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Brinjal Matters !



I read quite an interesting article on brinjal in the latest issue of Outlook. Here is the link http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?260065. It is nice to learn that brinjal is indigenous Indian vegetable unlike potato, tomato. There is even a 4th century BC recipe for brinjal quoted in Ettuthogai, Tamil epic !

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Top 10 Misspelled Words

According to a new study, these are the top 10 most misspelled words in the English language.

1. Definitely (Definately)
2. Sacrilegious (Sacreligious)
3. Indict (Indite)
4. Manoeuvre (Maneouvre)
5. Bureaucracy (Beaurocracy)
6. Broccoli (Brocolli)
7. Phlegm (Phleghm)
8. Prejudice (Predjudice)
9. Consensus (Conscensus)
10.Unnecessary (Unecessary)