Hollywood Jargons not only make the movie characters more realistic and also increases their style quotient. Even though the flow of the movies often makes us ignore these jargons we all wonder, once in a while, about ‘What the heck does that mean?
Do you understand who a ‘Shrink’ or ‘Snitch’ is? OR know the meaning of ‘Sitrep’ or ‘BOLO’? If no, then read this fun collection of commonly used Hollywood jargons.
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An Acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word like CBI (stands for Central Bureau of Investigation) or OMG (stands for Oh My God). Acronyms are so common in the daily lingo that most of us don’t even realize that we are using one and we don’t even know what they actually mean.
Curious to know what the commonly known ones mean? Let’s take a moment for self-knowledge!
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Ever got into a situation where a 5-year-old asked you why something is called by that particular name only, say why ketchup is called ketchup and you were simply speechless.
We don’t want to test your English language skills but irrespective of your command on the language, we are sure you don’t know the origin of all of these words. Here is a small list of words in the English language that have strange origins.
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Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician, writer and former international diplomat, is known for his exemplary and audacious speech at the Oxford Union where he demanded reparation payments from the UK to India for 200 years of its colonial rule. He’s also an acclaimed writer, having authored 19 bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction and a columnist.
But he’s also notoriously known for heavy words that make people scrambling for a dictionary. His speeches and tweets are known to increase google searches for words he used. I am sure that we all have scratched our head to understand what he just said, so here are some of those tweets that made us wonder if we know the English language at all.
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If you like to enrich your vocabulary then you are going to love this. As rich as the Oxford dictionary is, it is updated every year to add new words that become widely popular and find their way in daily usage. These could be colloquial words or popular abbreviations or even a modification/distortion of a word that already exists in the dictionary.
Learn about these new words and their meaning Chillax, Simples, Promposal, Bae and Whatevs.
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