Name: Tips & Tricks To Learn New English Words Faster | The Blending Technique | Increase Your Word Power
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Adverbs of manner

Hi ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hridhaan and I welcome each one of you personally with

Adverbs of degree

a very big heart on my channel, Let's Talk. Today's lesson is again a very, very interesting,

Transition words & phrases

because in today's lesson we will talk about some recent words that have been added to

English dictionary. Without further ado let's get started. The first word that we have in

the list is “breakfast + lunch”, the technique that we are talking about today is the blended

technique, wherein we actually blend the ‘first part of the first word’ and ‘the last

part of the second word’. In the recent times you must have seen that people have

started coining a word and that is called “brunch”. Branch is actually a blend of

these two words, ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’. So for example if you did not have your breakfast,

and before the lunch started you had something let's say around 11:30 or 12:00ish and the

blend of these two words it is neither the breakfast nor the lunch, so it is the duration

is actually somewhere in the middle of breakfast and lunch, that word and that, that, that

vocabulary that has been coined is called, “brunch”. For example, this morning when

I started recording the videos for each one of you, I was so excited that I missed my

breakfast and decided to rather have a brunch. So something that is in the middle of breakfast

and lunch is called the brunch. Let's move to the next word in the blended words “emotion

+ icon”. Now when you would like, when you like to express your emotions, let's say on

a WhatsApp or a Facebook using an icon, you see those cute yellow faces that we have when

you use WhatsApp and for that matter Facebook that, those words are called, the blend of

emotions and icon and they are called, “emoticons”. Emoticons, you stress the first part of the

word and that is emoticons, let's move to the next word in the list of blended words,

blended vocabulary we have, “motor + hotel”, so we take the first part of motor and the

last part of hotel and the word that turns out is “motel”. What is a motel? A motel

is actually a place that you basically see on a freeway. Imagine that you go on a vacation

and there's no restaurant on the freeway and there is no hotel, now a hotel that actually

runs in a motor, on a freeway is called a motel. For example, recently I was vacationing,

I went to the Himalayas and we found a very nice motel, where we decided to relax for

some time and then we drove back to the place that we were, we've basically headed to the

place that we were going to. The next word is, “global + English”, so we take the

‘glob’ of global and the ‘ish’ of English language. So language that is spoken

globally, all around the world is referred to as “globish”. So there are a lot of

phrases in English language that are quite famous globally and those phrases are basically

referred as the globish phrases. So if somebody says, hey dude the English that you're speaking

at the moment is wrong, then you can say if that phrase is globally used that it's called,

globish English. Let's move to the next one, “situation + comedy”. This is quite an

interesting one and you must have seen and heard this word quite a lot of times, we take

the ‘sit’ off situation and the first part of comedy, this gets a little different

because we've been using only the last part in the previous ones, this is the exceptional

case here, we use the ‘sit’ of situation and ‘com’ of comedy and it changes to

“sitcom”. So you must have seen a lot of shows on Netflix or for that matter other

OTT platforms, those particular shows that are quite funny and they have situation as

well, those shows are called sitcoms. The next one in the list of blended words is “smoke

+ fog”, it blends together and it becomes “smog”. What is the meaning of smog? Imagine

in the, during the winters early morning wintertime, there's a lot of pollution as well in the

city and it's quite foggy as well, so you do not see there's a lot of fog on, on the

road, you actually say, there's a lot of smog on the road. One very important thing that

we need to understand here is, the pronunciation of this word. A lot of people stretch on the

‘O’ sound, we do not have to stre, stretch on the ‘O’ sound, we just have to keep

it short, and we say smog, one more time, we say, smog. Next word in the list of blended

words is “spoon + fork” if you've gone to a good restaurant, you must see that there

is actually a fork, that actually, also looks like a spoon because it's, it's got only two

pointers to it, that fork is actually referred to as a brother of spoon, where, wherein it

can be used for both the purposes as a spoon, as well as a fork, that becomes a “Spork”.

So the ‘sp’ of spoon and the ‘ork’ of fork, becomes Spork. So the next time when

you see a utensil like that, you have a word for it that is called a Spock. So don't get

confused, do you call it a spoon or a fork? It is actually a Spock. Next one is “work

+ alcoholic”. This is quite a commonly used phrase and it is, it is quite globish as well,

which we take the ‘work’, the entire word together and ‘aholic’ of the first part,

again the exceptional case here as sitcom and it becomes “workaholic”. So somebody

who likes to do a lot of work, it does not means that somebody who drinks alcohol, somebody

who's an alcoholic and who works quite a lot is workaholic, no! It does not mean that.

It means somebody who likes to do a lot of work, somebody who's always working all the

time, and does not want to possibly take rest, a person basically who likes doing a lot of

work, that person is called, a workaholic. For example I consider myself as a workaholic,

because I make all of these videos for you guys to make you, and to help you understand

English better, so I consider myself as a workaholic, are you a workaholic or do you

want to be a workaholic? Find for yourself. The last one in the list of blended words

is a “breath + analyzer”. Can you guess what this word could be? I'm gonna write it

for you until then, please think what could this word be? And so it is called a “Breathalyzer”.

Now what is a Breathalyzer? Breathalyzer is actually a device that helps people check

on their breathing pattern. People with asthma basically use Breathalyzer one that, when

they are in the absence of the doctor just to check if everything is alright. The last

one in the list of blended words is “camera + recorder”. Now you see, I'm recording

this video for each one of you, now here is a word for such a function where we are using

a device which does the work of camera and as well as a recorder and that is called,

“camcorder”. A camera that has the function of recording of film as well, that is called

a camcorder. This brings us to the end of the list of blended words that we've been

talking about today, let's quickly go through them, brunch, emoticon, motel, globish, sitcom,

smog, Spork, workaholic, Breathalyzer and camcorder. This brings us to the end of the

list of blended words that we have spoken about in this lesson. I hope you use these

words and add them to your current set of vocabulary. I think each one of you for joining

me on this video and I hope you subscribe to my channel, because I'm going to bring

some amazing content for each one of you, in the recent future. Have a great day ahead