“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Mark Twain
I’ve never played golf before (my father was an avid golfer) so I can’t really say much about Mark Twain’s quotation. However, I thought that golf might be a good way of killing two (or even three!) birds with one stone. You’d be getting a lot of healthy exercise, meeting people and also enjoying a good game.
Have you ever played golf? Or are you thinking of starting one day?
The ‘b’ in the following words are silent, which means that you don’t pronounce them:
climb (klettern)
comb (Kamm)
debt (Schuld/Schulden)
doubt (Zweifel)
numb (taub)
thumb (Daumen)
Here’s a great list of words with ‘silent’ letters. Just click on the loudspeaker icon to listen to the pronunciation. My pronunciation just sounds a bit different because I come from England! 😉
British and American English often spell the same word differently. For example, British English words that end in
-re often end in -er in American English:
British         American
theatre         theater
centre         center
litre           liter
So it’s your decision which spelling you use. Just try not to mix and match!
I have two very good dictionaries on my tablet, but I still like to use an online dictionary now and again. My favourites are: www.dict.cc and www.leo.org.
If you can’t find the translation for a word, you can always ask for help in Leo’s forum. Here’s a discussion on how to translate the German word ‘Teesieb’. You see, there are always people out there in the big wide world who are willing to help out!
Do you always start an email with the same friendly greeting? I thought you might like some more ideas so that you don’t use the same words again and again.
Look here:
Do you have a favourite greeting?
In British English you fill in a form. And in American English you fill out a form.
