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It's summer, and that means it's also fireworks season.

Are you a PYROPHILE??

Definition:

one enthusiastic over fire or fireworks

About the Word:

The prefix pyro- has an ancestor in the Greek pyr meaning "fire".

Pyro- appears in dozens of terms,

ranging from pyrotechnics (fireworks)

to pyromania (an irresistible impulse to start fires).

KIDS SUMMER CARNIVAL

Last Sunday (July 24th) was the RLE Kids Summer Carnival.
We went to bampaku park and had a
great time playing games in the sun.
Here are some pictures from the day.

Scavenger Hunt Team A

Scavenger Hunt Team B

Pinata

Water Fight

Awards

Idiom 'Splitting Hairs'

SPLIT HAIRS
v. phr.
To find and argue about small and unimportant
differences as if the differences are important.
"John is always splitting hairs; he often starts
an argument about something small and unimportant."
(John is always arguing about differences
that do not really matter.)

Interesting English Trivia

Here are some interesting English trivia. Enjoy!

In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is:- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".

The longest place-name still in use is:-'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturi
pukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu' it is the Maori name of a hill in New Zealand.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

This sentence has thirty seven letters in it.

Did you just call me a donkey?

An interesting article from BBC News about "Americanisms"
Top 50 Americanisms BBC News link
Original article BBC News link

Sunday pooly Sundayyy!!!

Last Sunday I went to Nishigawara pool. I had a fantastic time! I sunbathed for 7 hours...heaven!! I had been waiting for such a long time to go to the pool!!! I also met super funny kids ^^ I already planned to go back there next month!

READ THIS ALOUD!

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plain lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

A chequer is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme
It helps me right awl stiles two reed
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your please two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.