Wing |
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CupOfTea (
English_Notes)
wing –
: The bird spread its wings and flew off. – .
to be on the wing –
to be on the wing – (.) ;
wing – (. .)
wing – ()
: aerospace test wing – -
wings – ,
wings – ,
wing – (.) ,
to add a wing to a building –
throw out a wing – ( )
wing – (.)
wings –
to stand in the wings – ( )
wait in the wings – ,
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A career ladder |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
apply for a job –
job advertisement / job advert / job ad –
CV (Curriculum Vitae) –
applicant – , , ;
objective – ,
interview – , ,
: interview with the personnel director for a job –
stressed interview – (.) " "
interviewer – ,
interviewee – ,
trainer – ; ,
trainee – , ,
training –
in-house training –
: We have an in-house training unit. – .
in-house –
in-house staff –
qualification – ; , ; ; ;
experience – ,
: She has 10 years experience in the job. – .
went on training course –
go on training course –
get a job –
employer – , ( )
employer of labour –
employer's liability –
employee – ;
number of employees –
prospect –
manager – , , ,
pay rise –
award / premium / bonus – ; ;
salary / wage –
annual / yearly wage –
to draw / earn a wage –
to pay a salary –
to pull down (.) / pull in a salary (.) – , ()
interest – , , ; , ,
responsibility – ( -.)
on one's own responsibility – ,
promote – ; ; /
to be promote – /
: He was promoted from Captain to Commodore. – .
step by step – ,
career take off –
rapid career –
in charge of / the boss of / responsible for –
: She was in charge of a department with five employees under her control – .
fresh challenge – , ,
work abroad –
resign / leaving her job – , ;
to resign one's office / post / position – ,
looking for a job –
dismiss / give the sack – ,
face the sack / get the sack –
: Today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption. – - 18 , .
unemployed / out of work –
unemployment benefit / dole –
part-time job – , ;
temporary –
permanent job –
working hours – ,
full-time –
contract – , ,
to abrogate / cancel / repudiate a contract – ,
to breach / break / violate a contract –
self-employed –
take over / take control of – (, )
to take over a business – ( ) , ( )
I’m with Study.ru = I work for Study.ru – Study.ru
retire – ,
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(effective, efficient, skilled, experienced) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
effective, efficient, skilled, experienced "", "". . .
effective "", ""; " ", "":
Aspirin is an effective remedy for a cold.
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Special lightening was very effective.
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affective, " ", "":
Mary pretended that his words were not affective, but deep in her heart she was hurt.
efficient - "" , . ", ", ", ", :
Paul is an efficient computer programmer.
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The assembly line is an efficient way of producing cars.
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skilled ", " " ". . skillful skilled, "":
They needed a skilled electrician to do the job.
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The painting was intricate, the job of a skilled hand.
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He is not very skillful with his chopsticks.
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experienced " ", :
They found him out immediately; he was not very experienced in telling lies.
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I must admit I am not very experienced in that kind of work.
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Success Bringing Idioms , |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
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Acid test (. )
, -.
Example:
The training course was very interesting but the acid test will come when I start my new job.
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Break fresh ground (. )
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Example:
Scientists have broken fresh ground in their exploration of outer space.
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Explore all avenues (. )
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Example:
We can't say it's impossible until we've explored all avenues.
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Fine-tooth comb (. )
- , .
Example:
The police are examining the scene of the accident with a fine-tooth comb.
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Get your ducks in a row (. )
, .
Example:
We need to get our ducks in a row if we want our project to succeed.
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Root and branch (. )
, .
Example:
The causes of the disease must be eliminated root and branch.
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Vocabulary
acid -
scientist -
exploration -
outer – ,
space -
until –
avenue -
scene – ,
accident -
comb -
row -
succeed -
cause -
disease -
eliminate -
root -
branch -
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Face |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
Faces, like build, vary a lot. Some people have oval faces – their foreheads are much wider than their chins. Other people have heart-shaped, square or round faces.
Features also vary. My grandfather has bushy eyebrows (he has lots of hair!), a hooked nose and high heekbones. His eyes are large. My mother has a broad nose, which she hates, as she prefers narrow noses. But she is lucky to have even or regular teeth. My sister corrected her crooked teeth by wearing a brace which straightened them. She has rosy cheeks, small ears and a snub nose, which goes up at the end.
I have long, curly hair, though my sister is the opposite, with short, straight hair. Her hair is fine and doesn't weigh very much, but mine is thick and heavy. My mother's hair is wavy – in between straight and curly. It's cut in a bob and she also has a short fringe, where it is cut horizontally across her forehead. My father is losing his hair – in fact he is going bald, which makes him very sad. My brother looks like he is going to lose his hair too – it is receding.
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beautiful, handsome, pretty face — ,
familiar face —
oval face —
round face —
ruddy face —
forehead -
a high forehead —
chin -
double chin —
smooth chin —
chins up! - ()!, !
Features - ;
coarse features —
delicate, fine features —
prominent features —
soft features —
striking features —
bushy - 2) ( , . .)
a man with eminent nose, bushy brows and clear-flashing eyes — ,
hooked - , ;
His nose was larger and hooked. — , .
With high cheekbones – ,
broad nose –
baby tooth -
decayed tooth - ; ,
false tooth
loose tooth
even teeth = regular teeth –
lower teeth
upper teeth
milk tooth
permanent tooth
wisdom tooth = wisdom-tooth -
crooked teeth – ,
brace – ( )
aquiline nose, Roman nose — ,
bulbous nose —
pug nose, snub nose, turned-up nose —
long hair —
short hair —
hair falls out —
He parts his hair in the middle, and I part mine on the side. — , - .
People lose their hair. — .
he is going bald –
black hair, dark hair —
blond hair, light hair —
brown hair —
curl of hair, lock of hair —
curly hair —
grey hair, white hair —
head of hair, shock of hair — ,
kinky hair —
red hair —
single hair —
straight hair —
strand of hair —
thick hair —
thinning hair —
fine hair –
bushy hair — , ()
unmanageable hair, unruly hair —
wavy hair —
rosy cheeks –
bob - ( )
fringe –
hair is receding –
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- Colouring (, ) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
My sister is an English rose – she has fair hair and fair skin. She doesn't tan easily and has to be careful in the sun. My mother is blonde, also with a fair complexion. I am a red-head – with red hair. Like many other people with a pale complexion, I get freckles from the sun – small brown dots on my face and arms. In contrast, my father has dark-brown hair and he is quite dark-skinned. You are born with a colour – white or Caucasian, black or Asian. People whose parents are of different ethnic origin are mixed-race. Southern Europeans are sometimes described as Mediterranean.
fair hair –
fair skin –
fair complexion - ( )
to tan easily —
blond –
blonde -
Is she a natural blonde? — ?
peroxide blonde ( )
red-head = redhead -
pale face —
pale complexion —
freckles –
dark-skinned - ,
Caucasian - , ( )
Asian - 1. , 2. 1) , 2) / ,
ethnic origin -
people of mixed race –
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
Congratulations!
, , , , , .
Well done!
, , -, , . . .
, . : Happy Birthday! : Many happy returns!
: , (, ). , 18- – , . , 21 , - , – .
, : Good luck! , . : Break a leg!
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I hope you break a leg —
Let's all go and do our best. Break a leg! — , . !
- , : Bad luck!
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to drink a toast to smb. — -.
to give/propose a toast to smb. — -.
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Here's to you – () !
Let's drink to… - ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, "The Bride and Groom" – , ( )!
Please raise your glasses to… - ...
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Well done! It's a fantastic result.
Congratulations on passing! You deserve it after so much hard work.
, , , , :
Congratulations! Wishing you many happy years together.
Wishing you the best of luck in your future together.
: I was so sorry to hear that ….
, - , :
I was deeply saddened to hear… - () , ...
Please accept my deepest condolences on the death of… - ...
("I" "We", . : We were very sad to hear that…)
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
, to agree, to believe, to guess, to think, to suppose, to imagine, to realise, to admit, to demand, to deny, to suggest, to tell, to promise , .
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1) , :
fortunately/luckily — ,
unfortunately — ,
strangely (enough) — (), ,
unexpectedly — , .;
2) :
kindly — ,
foolishly — ,
wisely — , .;
3) , :
as a rule — ,
broadly speaking/generally speaking — ,
essentially — ,
on the whole — ,
fundamentally — .;
4) , , :
almost certainly — ,
possibly — ,
perhaps — ,
probably — , ,
no doubt — ,
definitely — , .;
5) , / , :
hardly — ,
naturally — ,
obviously - , ,
of course — ;
6) , , :
actually — ,
indeed — ,
really/ truly — .;
7) :
frankly speaking/ honestly — ,
I need hardly say — ., .
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Homonyms (part 6 S, T, U, V, W, X, Y) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
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sachet | a small bag containing perfumed powder |
| sashay | to strut or flounce | |
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sacks | bags |
| sax | short for saxophone | |
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sail | wind powered water travel |
| sale | the act of selling | |
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sane | mentally normal |
| seine | fishing net | |
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saner | more mentally normal than others |
| seiner | one who fishes with a net | |
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saver | one who saves |
| savor | to relish a taste | |
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sawed | cut timber |
| sod | turf | |
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scene | visual location |
| seen | past tense of saw | |
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Homonyms (part 5 N, O, P, Q, R) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
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naval | pertaining to ships and the sea |
| navel | pertaining to the belly button | |
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nay | no |
| neigh | a horse's cry | |
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nays | votes against |
| neighs | a horse vocalizes | |
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neap | the lowest tide |
| neep | a turnip | |
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Homonyms (part 4 K,L, M) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
karat, see: carat
kernel, see: colonel
Kew, see: cue
key, see: cay
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knap | crest of a hill; break with a hammer |
| nap | a short sleep | |
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knead | working bread dough |
| need | must have | |
knew, see: gnu
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Homonyms (part 3 F,G,H, I, J) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
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farrow | a litter of pigs |
| pharoah | Egyptian king | |
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faux | fake |
| foe | enemy | |
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fay | a fairy |
| Faye | a woman's name | |
| fey | strange and otherwordly | |
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fays | more than one fairy |
| faze | to disconcert | |
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faze | to stun |
| phase | a part of the sequence | |
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Homonyms (part 2 C,D) |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
| by a chorus | ||
| coral | marine polyp skeleton | |
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chorale | a choir |
| corral | a pen for horses | |
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chord | three tones in harmony |
| cord | very light rope | |
| cored | divested of its central part | |
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Homonyms |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
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a | very short little insignificant English word |
| eh | an interrogative utterance | |
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acts | things done |
| ax | chopping tool | |
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ad | short for advertisement |
| add | short for addition | |
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adds | performs additions |
| ads | more than one advertisement | |
| adze | axe-like tool | |
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ade | fruit beverage |
| aid | to assist | |
| aide | an assistant | |
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aerie | eagle's nest |
| airy | breezy | |
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aero | of aircraft |
| arrow | slender, pointed shaft | |
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Tongue Twisters |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
She slits the sheet she sits on.
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.
Red lolly, yellow lolly.
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
that ever plucked a mother pheasant!
Mrs Hunt had a country cut front
in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
Knapsack strap.
Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
Great gray goats
Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...
The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
Clowns grow glowing crowns.
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
She sees seas slapping shores.
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.
Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.
She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.
She is a thistle sifter.
She has a seive of unsifted thistles
and a seive of sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles
she sifts into the seive of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.
Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
Five fat friars frying flat fish.
Betty bought some bitter butter
and it made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make her bitter batter better.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
I'm not the fig plucker,
nor the fig pluckers' son,
but I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.
One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
The big black bug's blood ran blue.
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
Six stick shifts stuck shut.
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
People pledging plenty of pennies.
To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
Switch watch, wrist watch.
Six thick thistle sticks.
Irish wristwatch
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INTERNET AND E-MAIL |
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CupOfTea (English_Notes)
TO BOOKMARK – ,
I HAVE BOOKMARKED THE CNN HOME PAGE AS I USE IT REGULARLY TO GET THE LATEST NEWS – CNN, , .
TO SUBSCRIBE –
IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSGROUPS, YOU OFTEN GET HUNDREDS OF MESSAGES – , .
SCREEN OUT – ,
SOME ISPS ALLOW YOU TO SCREEN OUT UNWANTED MAIL- (-) .
SERVER – , ,
OUR SERVER AT WORK WAS DOWN YESTERDAY SO I DIDN’T GET YOUR MESSAGE TILL TODAY- , .
TO HACK INTO – , , «»
SOMEONE HACKED INTO OUR COMPUTER SERVER AND DESTROYED ALL OUR FILES – - «» ( ) .
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE –
DO YOU HAVE GOOD ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE? IT’S WORTH UPDATING IT FREQUENTLY – ? .
TO BOUNCE –
SHE MUST HAVE CHANGED HER E-MAIL ADDRESS – THE E-MAIL I SENT HER BOUNCED – : , – .
GARBLED – ; ,
THAT FILE YOU SENT ME AS AN ATTACHMENT WAS UNREADABLE. THE TEXT WAS COMPLETELY GARBLED – , , . .
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