Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Whose Word ?

Hey I am back again . Today I'll be telling you about some words which we use in our daily life  but actually don't know who gave it . Here are some of them:-
Word                           Meaning                               Author
Chortle                       Chuckle gleefully                   Lewis Carrol
Doublethink-            Contradictory Ideas                  George Orwell
Malapropism          misapplication of words               R.B. Sheridan
Nerd                               Bore,                                   Dr Seuss
Pandemonium           Uproar                                       John Milton
Quark                      Hypothetical particle              James Joyce
Romeo                     Romantically inclined man       William Shakespeare
Robot-                      Mechanical man                      Karol Capek
Scrooge                    Miser                                      Charles Dickens
Shylock                      Miser, moneylender                William Shakespeare
Yahoo                        Barbarian                                Jonathan Swift  
Yahoo-Barbarian, it was given by Jonathan Swift