The nuggets of wisdom of Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chanchad aka Rancho, a character Aamir Khan plays in top-grosser film 3 Idiots, are affecting minds in classrooms in Punjab. Rancho's quips on the ills of the education system - and its purpose -

Hello All. I would like to ask about how to study English by oneself? I was on course in language school. It was terrible time form me. I achieve only FCE course from Longman book - "Fast track to FCE". Now I am studying English at home

This was from a London website: CHAOS AT IKEA OPENING Five people are in hospital today ... opening of England's biggest Ikea store turned into a riot. Is "in hospital" correct or is it vogue usage? It sounds funny to me.I'd

This is a usage of "tuition" that you don't hear ... and fees"). Said payment is not inconsiderable in many cases. Most universities here have three kinds of fees: tuition, residence and examination. Application fees here also

Oliver Cromm wrote on 18 Jan 2005: I will agree that the pop song "There's a Moon ... tonight" would not strike me as anything more than banal. On a side note, the direct translation of "a moon" into German sounds quite

Mark Barratt wrote on 25 Nov 2004: "Bigoted" and "prejudiced" are two much better terms than "racist". ... who can see and feel well enough to perceive beauty. I confess that I've never been able to understand

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I think they pretty much died out in the UK ... few people who kept them to make a political point). And most of the ones here disappeared to the junkyard, antique shops or museums in 1961 when our currency went decimal. I still see a few around,