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How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Read How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman.

How to Talk to English People at Parties

Quiz 1 – Interjections

1. Oi! – Hello!
2. *gasp* – Sense of surprise or shock.
3. Ta-ta! – Good bye!
4. Tut-tut – Sound of disapproval, disappointment.
5. Nah – Not really.
6. Ta – Thank you!
7. Uh-huh – That’s correct!
8. Eh? – Right? Isn’t it?
9. Um… – Hesitation.
10. Huh? – Right?/Yeah?/Sorry?

Quiz 2 – Everyday(?) Vocabulary

1. Petrichor – the way it smells outside after rain
2. Aglet – the plastic coating on a shoe lace
3. Glabella – the space between your eyebrows
4. Punt – the bottom of a wine bottle
5. Zarf – the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup
6. Defenestrate – to throw someone or something out a window
7. Tittle – the dot over a lowercase i or j
8. Aphthong – silent letters in a word
9. Tmesis – when you separate a word into two, and intervene with another word, for effect, for example – abso-freaking-lutely
10. Contrail – the vapour trails behind a plane

// Jonatan