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Often mistaken words used in modern day news reading

Posted in ESL Vocabulary, Vocabulary in the News by wordman on the June 2nd, 2009

Vocabulary is a tough and difficult subject. Even learned persons have difficulty in using vocabulary in right context. Vocabulary not only deals with meaning of the sentence and word in right place but also usage. It is important to learn the meaning of the word and its context in right place. There are certain words which used in appropriate place create a paradox which is irrelevant to the sentence or relevant to the sentence.

Podcast a famous word in recent times has become popular after apples IPod. This word will be included in the next edition of New Oxford American Dictionary. This word is taken from the word broadcast and apples IPod, both of these words combined to form the famous word Podcast.
The word pococurante was the last word spelled by Sai Gunturi (13 year old) of Dallas. Sai Gunturi won the 76th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Thursday. Pococurante means indifferent or nonchalant.
Words such as medireview are not included in dictionary but it is used pre dominantly by technical people. It is a by product of filtering software which changes eval to review to stop cross site scripting. This is used by Google and Yahoo. Google and Yahoo security filters use this word pre dominantly.

Exoplanet is another word which is predominantly used in space related research bibliography. Exoplanet is not recognised by dictionaries but it is used. Scientists say that there might be hundreds of exoplanets in the earth.

There are other various different terms which have different meaning in different dictionaries such as Jihad, Jangaweed, etc. One of the most difficult things is describing the miscreants with the word jihad. Jihad has religious significance and terrorists described as persons with religious background will increase their identity rather than portraying them as people with insane beliefs. Jangaweed is another terms which is described as a “man with a gun on horse” which does not apply in reality. These jangaweed`s are immoral people who loot, grab and steal property from legitimate legal users.

There are various words which obtain different meanings in different contexts. Meaning of the word changes according to the context in which it is applied. Presence of different types of English such as British, American, Pacific, etc changes the usage and written form of certain words. Slangs also affect the sentence structure and its applied meaning.

There are various other terms which are not even present in dictionary but are widely used by technical and general public. These and many more words are present in electrical, technical and electronic industry.

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