ニコニコ動画 Notes for May 26, 2011

May 26, 2011 - NEWS IDIOMS!
How to rate my video:
On a scale from one to ten I'd give that video a (number.)
gory= very bloody and gross

1. Today was unseasonably cold.

2. It was a drizzly day.

3. The Japanese government is angry because TEPCO flip-flopped on their decision to pump seawater into a nuclear reactor.

4. The estranged husband of the woman identified by some media as the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's out-of-wedlock son says he feels betrayed by the former governor.

estranged=adjective used to describe someone who used to be close with someone else

We use this word when 2 people have grown apart.

out-of-wedlock: born from unmarried people

5. Parents keep child's gender under wraps.
to keep st under wraps=to keep st secret

6. Schwarzenegger must revamp image once more.

Interesting English
7. dirt poor=only rich people had floors.
8. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
9. Are English muffins from England?
10. Are French fries from France?
10. Quicksand can work slowly.
11. What shape is a boxing ring? It’s square.
12. A guinea pig is not from Guinea is it not a pig.
13. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce.
Fingers finger. A hammer hammers.
14. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?
15. One goose, 2 geese. So, why isn't one moose, 2 meeseMoose changes mooses, not meese.
16. If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
17. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
18. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same?
19. What's the difference between a wise man and a wise guy?
20. How can the weather be “hot as hell” one day and “cold as hell” another?




When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault; the silly language doesn’t quite know whether it’s coming or going.