Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.
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English is increasingly used for communication all over the world. For the latest set of words that we’ve added to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries online, we’ve chosen to focus on English as it is used
worldwide, or World English (or even World Englishes). Many of these words are related to food (see our last blog post about banh mi), because people everywhere like to try new foods, and popular foods spread quickly around the world.
Foods that change when they travel – tikka masala and schnitzels
Banh mi is a tasty Vietnamese sandwich resulting from a mix of different cultures, and it is now becoming popular outside its native Vietnam. When food is exported in this way, it often undergoes changes, sometimes because some of the ingredients are not readily available in the new country, and sometimes because people have different tastes there, or have an idea for fusion food, mixing it with another ingredient or dish that is popular in that country.
When many people began to move to the UK from the Indian subcontinent in the second half of the twentieth century, for example, they brought with them their culinary traditions, and some people opened restaurants. The food they made quickly became popular with British people, but of course, the British at that time were not used to spicy food, so this food was adapted to British tastes. Yoghurt or cream, for example, were added to create milder dishes with a more liquid consistency, like our word of the month tikka masala (a combination of the existing dish tikka and a masala sauce. In due course, tikka masala travelled back to India and to other parts of the world and became popular there too.
Another example of culinary transformation can be found in the schnitzel, which in its native Europe was originally made with veal. When German immigrants took it with them to the United States, veal was not easily available, so they started to use beef instead. And when German Jews migrated to Israel, almost a century later, they began to use chicken, because that meat was cheaper there. So today, in the different countries where it is eaten, a schnitzel can be made with a variety of meats.
Foods that change over time – pigs in blankets
Tikka masala and schnitzel are terms that are entirely new to the English language. Sometimes a term that already existed in English evolves and the meaning changes as the dish’s popularity spreads. Take the snack food pigs in blankets, for example. It’s more commonly called pigs in a blanket in the United States, but then it isn’t actually the same thing there – in Britain, it’s sausages wrapped in bacon, but in the US the sausage is wrapped in pastry, rather like a British sausage roll.
It seems that, in terms of sausages, the American meaning may have been the first one. When the pig in a blanket first crossed the Atlantic sometime around the middle of the last century, the meaning was adapted, possibly because Britain already had the sausage roll. Looking back at the origins of pigs in blankets, though, things get even more interesting. The first evidence in the Oxford English Dictionary goes back, as we can see below, to 1880, but it has nothing to do with sausages – the term was originally used for oysters wrapped in bacon!
This oyster and bacon combo, however, was not in itself an American invention, as it is mentioned in British cookbooks of the time, under the rather strange name of angels on horseback. It seems this name may have come about because the edges of the bacon turn upwards when it is cooked, looking a little like the wings of angels.
A masala of languages – chakka jam
Sometimes, too, an English word is used together with a word from another language to create a new expression. Take chakka jam, for example – and despite what you might think about jam, this one has nothing to do with food! When blocking roads became a popular form of protest in India, this term was coined from the Hindi chakka (meaning “wheel”) and the English jam, as in traffic jam. A chakka jam, though, is a type of protest, a new meaning that does not exist in either of the words chakka and jam.
So, as we can see, in all the many varieties of World English new words are constantly coming in from other languages, the meaning of existing words is changing, and words
are being put together in new ways to create new meanings. Masala pizza, anyone?
Discover more words and their meanings at our Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries!
Mark Temple worked as an English teacher in Spain, Italy and Latin America before becoming an editor in the ELT Dictionaries department at Oxford University Press.
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Learn the Meaning and History of Australian Words
The Oxford Word of the Month is written by members of the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC) and published each month by Oxford University Press. Each Word of the Month looks at an Australian word or term in some detail, providing a history of the term and its role in current Australian society.
2020 Words of the Month
Nutbush — January
Green nomad — February
Sausage sizzle — March
Fauxgan — April
Pet shop galah — May
Carpetbagger — June
Postie bike — July
Bum nut — August
Zebra opossum — September
Dunny diver — October
2019 Words of the Month
Pinkie — January
Fair dinkumness — February
Tassie tuxedo — March
Rolled-gold — April
Stack hat — May
Mud map — June
Cruisy — July
Schmiddy — August
Burnt chop syndrome — September
Dog shot — October
2018 Words of the Month
Egg flip — January
Doing the doors — February
Magic — March
Temp — April
Harbour bridge pass — May
Picfac — June
Anzac Day rule — July
Green whistle — August
Dog act — September
Cultural burn — October
Chicken salt — November
Flog — December
2017 Words of the Month
Turbo chook — January
Black caviar odds — February
Corflute — March
Thongophone — April
Smashed avo — May
Kangatarian — June
Shoey — July
Honey joy — August
Cubby house — September
Lady tradie — October
Platypup — November
John Farnham — December
2016 Words of the Month
Koala diplomacy — December
Melbourne Cup field — November
Baggy green — October
Hip-pocket nerve — September
Bush bride — August
Deso — July
Convict class — June
Tag dag — May
Kangaroo mile — April
Bush politician — March
Field day — February
Australian tea — January
Click here to find out Australia’s Word of the Year for 2015.
Click here to find out the International Word of the Year for 2015.
2015 Words of the Month
Humidicrib — December
Schmick up — November
Flagfall — October
CUB — September
Tip turkey — August
Hoon operation — July
Hubbard — June
Spill — May
Big stoush — April
Ned Kelly beard — March
Eggshell blonde — February
Fridging — January
For archived issues of Word of the Month, please visit the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s website here.
Words are powerful. The way we speak to ourselves matters, and the way we communicate and interact with the world around us matters. Which is why a focused word of the month can be such a powerful tool in your life and journal.
While many of us are familiar with a word of the year, a word of the month is also a great way to stay focused in your life and your belief systems. When the calendar turns to a new month, it’s something that forces you to take stock of your priorities for the next 30 days, AND it’s something you can incorporate into your journal for the month.
Deciding to have a word of the month is similar to having a mantra. Mantras are used in different cultures as a way of bringing different beliefs and ideas into existence. If you say something enough times—eventually you’ll believe it.
Maybe you are someone who wants to cultivate better relationships with the people around you. You might choose the word “community” as your word of the month.
If you want to step outside of your comfort zone and experience new things, you may choose “courage” as your word of the month.
Your world of the month could be something that inspires you and propels you into action in your day to day life, or – conversely – reminds you to take a break and give yourself a rest.
How to Choose your Word for the Month?
There are lots of different ways to choose a word of the month…the best method is one that works for you.
An Improvement Word
Think about something in your life you want to be better at. This could be something that affects how you interact with your physical world such as keeping your space clean and organized, spending more time outdoors, or finding a new job.
A Spirituality Word
It can also be a word that drives your spirituality. Maybe you want to spend more time meditating, being grateful, or doing yoga. Or maybe there’s a word from scripture or your religion that speaks to you.
A Thematic Word
Another option is drawing inspiration from the world around you or from the calendar itself.
For example, since September is often associated with the new beginnings of back to school, maybe you choose a word like “fresh start” or “shift” for September. This would work for January, too!
In July, maybe your word is “outside” because you want to spend less time at your computer, and more time in nature.
How Do You Pick One Word for the Month?
There are endless words you can choose your single word for the month.
Perhaps start by looking at a dictionary for the definition, or the thesaurus for synonyms of a word you have in mind. Maybe the word you have in mind is “love.” Check to see if there is a synonym that speaks to you better like cherishing, adulation or passion.
How to Use your Monthly Word?
Once you have found the perfect word of the month for you, start writing it everywhere!
Write it in your journal (you could even incorporate it into your vision board, scripting manifestation, or 55 5 method), have it as the lock screen on your phone, tablet, and desktop, and write a note and stick it in your bathroom mirror.
When you wake up in the morning, start your day by saying your word of the month outloud to yourself and embracing the weight of the word. Let it wash over you and picture what embracing that word will look like for the day.
How will it make you walk, how will it make you talk, how will it change the way you interact with the world around you? Will you make your breakfast differently than the day before?
Start believing that you are all the things you wish to receive from your word of the month. Every time you see that word, let it fill you with that belief.
Another great way you can use your word of the month is to make a brain dump. Write about how the world makes you feel and all the associations you have with the word.
Words may have definitions, but they also carry very different definitions depending on who is using them.
108 Word of the Month Ideas So You Can Choose a Different Word Each Month
- Achieve
- Advise
- Advocate
- Apply
- Assemble
- Balance
- Budget
- Build
- Champion
- Clarify
- Collaborate
- Compassion
- Conserve
- Consolidate
- Craft
- Create
- Customize
- Delegate
- Demonstrate
- Design
- Detail
- Determine
- Discover
- Display
- Diversify
- Document
- Draft
- Earn
- Emphasize
- Encourage
- Energize
- Enthusiasm
- Excellence
- Experiment
- Facilitate
- Familiarize
- Forage
- Foster
- Guide
- Gratitude
- Harness
- Honor
- Identify
- Imagine
- Implement
- Improve
- Improvise
- Inclusion
- Increase
- Influence
- Innovate
- Initiate
- Integrity
- Inspire
- Invent
- Justify
- Launch
- Listen
- Maintain
- Manage
- Master
- Measure
- Mediate
- Meditate
- Mindset
- Monitor
- Motivate
- Navigate
- Nominate
- Normalize
- Observe
- Offer
- Organize
- Outsource
- Overhaul
- Participate
- Perceive
- Perfect
- Perform
- Perspective
- Plan
- Predict
- Prepare
- Prioritize
- Progress
- Project
- Provide
- Qualify
- Rebuild
- Receive
- Recognize
- Redesign
- Repair
- Restore
- Secure
- Streamline
- Strengthen
- Support
- Transcribe
- Transform
- Unify
- Upgrade
- Validate
- Verify
- Willpower
- Win
- Write
- Zest
Having One Word To Focus On Every Month is Empowering
Having a word of the month is empowering because you are allowing yourself to bring change and intention into your day to day life.
You can choose to instead have a word of the day, week or even year. That is perfectly acceptable too. Just be sure you’re giving yourself the time you need to feel the change your word will bring you.
Over the course of the month you may find that your definition of the word will change too. That is perfectly normal! Your experiences and thoughts are constantly re-defining your beliefs about the world around you— just as experiences and thoughts will deepen and change how we define our language.
This might also help you choose a new word for next month.
Words carry weight and energy.
Make Your Word into a Mantra
Another great way to use your word of the month is to write down as many mantras about it you can and say them outloud to yourself.
If your word of the month is “love” you could say:
- I am loved
- I deserve to be loved
- I love the people around me
- I have endless love to give and receive
Mantras are powerful. Saying them every day is a great way to fundamentally rewire our belief systems.
Maybe something happened in your life that led you to believe you were not actually worthy of love, or capable of loving others fully. Just because you have had these experiences does not mean you need to believe these hurtful things.
You can share your word of the month with someone around you that you trust as well. This will be a great way to stay accountable and truly feel the full power of your word of the month!
Lindsay is a photographer and adventurer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is finishing up her 95 GMC conversion van build and then traveling the country with her Australian Shepard mix, Rooney. Lindsay graduated from the University of Utah in 2016 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. She is passionate about storytelling, journaling, and living life to the fullest.
Lindsay loves documenting her travels and adventures through photography, videography and bullet journaling.
She is an avid traveler and has been to 13 different countries- with many more to come! You can follow her adventures on her tiktok (@lindsayamanphotography), youtube (coming soon), instagram (@lindsayamanphotography ), and her website.
Understanding Lean one word at a time…
Monthly micro-learning lessons focused on the Lean lexicon. Have fun as we guide you through the nomenclature;
bringing you insights into the nuances of this proven discipline.
The Word of The Month: Catchball
The Catchball process promotes buy-in to leadership aspirations and organizational goals through two-way, top-down/bottom-up communication. Learn more in this month’s Word of the Month.
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The Word of The Month: Renewal
The need for renewal can be triggered by many factors; regardless of what prompts it, the key is to make renewal part of your CI initiatives, and to help ensure employees are performing optimally by aligning strategic objectives with daily activities. Check out the latest Word of the Month for more about the facets of Renewal.
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The Word of The Month: Takt
Measuring Takt time and adjusting output will allow you to: improve workflow, efficiency, and quality, understand capacity, standardize processes, and eliminate waste that can result from overproduction.
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The Word of The Month: Kanban
Kanban is a visual, pull production system used to manage and communicate daily project work by signaling upstream operations to deliver what is needed, when needed, in the quantity needed. Learn more about Kanban in this month’s Word of the Month.
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The Word of The Month: Agile
Agile’s process of rapid iterations and flexibility aren’t as limited as once believed. It’s applicable to a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, aerospace, and pharma. Through collaboration and quick responsiveness, Agile drives customer value and competitive advantage. Learn more about Agile in this month’s WORD OF THE MONTH.
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The Word of The Month: SMED
The primary goal of implementing SMED is downtime/process time reduction. Removing non-value adding waste from the process through shifting work performed from while a machine is down, to while it is running, results in drastic reduction in lead time, and improved process flow and customer satisfaction.
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The Word of The Month: A3 Thinking
Based on the scientific method (PDCA), A3’s provide the framework for gathering information at the source, testing, evaluating, learning, and standardizing to support an overall CI management system.
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The Word of The Month: Problem-Solving
Let’s face it, problems crop up, but addressing the symptoms is not enough; we must get to root cause (or causes). Methods such as 5Whys, CEDAC, and A3 provide a framework for doing just that. Armed with such methods and mindset, problems become opportunities for improvement rather than obstacles and setbacks, and are identified, addressed, and eliminated.
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Pick one word on the first of every month. A power word. A motivational word. A word that speaks to you, makes your soul light up. Use your word as a theme for your month.
Small habits like choosing a word of the month can be transformational. Little habits add up to the biggest long-term changes. For more life-changing habits, check out my free mini ebook, 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life.
Shout-out to my mentors (Marlo Higgins + Gloria Atanmo) who first encouraged me to add power words into my life. I hope this power words list finds you well. Pass it on.
Step 1: Pick a Word of The Month
Power Words List:
- Accept
- Accomplish
- Achieve
- Act
- Add
- Advance
- Adventure
- Alive
- Amazing
- Ambitious
- Appreciate
- Ascend
- Attain
- Attitude
- Awake
- Balance
- Be
- Begin
- Believe
- Bliss
- Bold
- Boss
- Bright
- Breakdown
- Build
- Calm
- Catalyst
- Challenge
- Chase
- Clarity
- Commit
- Communicate
- Compassion
- Complete
- Concentrate
- Confident
- Content
- Conquer
- Courage
- Create
- Cultivate
- Dare
- Declutter
- Dedicate
- Decide
- Determination
- Devote
- Dream
- Drive
- Empower
- Encourage
- Endure
- Enjoy
- Enthusiasm
- Envision
- Escape
- Excite
- Expand
- Experience
- Expert
- Explore
- Faith
- Fearless
- Fierce
- Fight
- Finish
- Fire
- Flourish
- Focus
- Forgive
- Free
- Freedom
- Focus
- Forward
- Fulfillment
- Free
- Generous
- Gentle
- Genius
- Give
- Glow
- Grace
- Gratitude
- Grounded
- Grow
- Guts
- Habit
- Harmony
- Heal
- Health
- Higher
- Honesty
- Honor
- Hope
- Humble
- Hunger
- Hustle
- Imagine
- Immerse
- Improve
- Initiation
- Inspire
- Integrity
- Journey
- Joy
- Jump
- Key
- Kind
- Kingdom
- Lead
- Learn
- Legendary
- Live
- Limitless
- Love
- Massive
- Magic
- Meditate
- Mindful
- Mindset
- Mission
- Meaning
- Momentum
- Money
- Money-making
- Motivate
- Motive
- Move
- Nature
- Nourish
- Now
- Nurture
- Obstacles
- Open
- Opportunity
- Optimistic
- Overcome
- Passion
- Patience
- Peace
- Persevere
- Persist
- Persuade
- Plan
- Play
- Positive
- Possibilities
- Power
- Powerful
- Practice
- Pride
- Prioritize
- Prosper
- Purpose
- Quality
- Queen
- Question
- Quiet
- Reach
- Rebrand
- Reflect
- Relax
- Release
- Renew
- Reset
- Retreat
- Revive
- Rise
- Risk
- Role
- Safe
- Satisfaction
- Secure
- Security
- Self
- Self-care
- Self-love
- Self-worth
- Shameless
- Spark
- Speak
- Special
- Spectacular
- Spirit
- Still
- Strength
- Stretch
- Strong
- Success
- Surge
- Sustain
- Surrender
- Teach
- Time
- Today
- Treasure
- Trust
- Truth
- Understand
- Unlimited
- Unity
- Unstoppable
- Value
- Vast
- Versatile
- Vibrant
- Wake
- Wander
- Wealthy
- Will
- Wild
- Willpower
- Winner
- Worthy
- Wondrous
- Wow
- Yearn
- Yes
- YOLO (!!!)
- Zen
- Zest
Step 2: Put Your Word of The Month EVERYWHERE
Make sure you can see your word everyday.
Here are a few suggestions:
- Set a reminder on your phone to get an alarm twice a day
- Set your word as your home screen on your laptop or phone (click here for a free Canva template)
- Put your word of the month on the bathroom mirror
- Write your word every day in your journal
- Say your word out loud in front of a mirror (or sing it, whatever tickles your fancy)
*Bonus* Step 3: Pick an Affirmation or Mantra
I also enjoy adding a monthly Mantra that aligns with my power word. Click here for a list of my favorite affirmations.
Need a reset? Check out my 10 Days to Higher Self workbook to dive deep and realign.
My word of the month this month is Forward and my mantra is I courageously move forward. What is your word of the month? *comment below*
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There are twelve months in a year. English words for months begin with a CAPITAL letter.
Click on the pictures or the text to hear the English words for months of the year.
Click on the pictures or the text to hear the English words for months of the year.
JANUARY
January is the first month of the year.
It is winter in the UK in January. The weather is cold.
The trees are bare. The sky is grey. Snow sometimes falls.
FEBRUARY
February is the second month of the year.
It is winter in the UK. The weather is cold and frosty.
The earth is bare. The ground is hard and frozen.
MARCH
March is the third month of the year.
In the UK, March marks the beginning of spring.
Plants begin to grow again. The weather is often cool and windy.
APRIL
April is the fourth month of the year. April is a spring month.
Trees sprout leaves. Buds open. Lambs and other baby animals are born.
In the UK, April can be a wet month. The sky is sometimes grey and cloudy.
MAY
May is the fifth month of the year.
In the UK, May is a spring month. The days grow longer.
The weather is warm and sunny. Flowers begin to blossom.
JUNE
June is the sixth month of the year.
In the UK, June marks the beginning of summer.
The days are long, and the weather is bright and sunny.
JULY
July is the seventh month of the year. July is a summer month.
The sun shines brightly most days. The weather is usually hot.
Most schools and colleges close for the summer break at the end of July.
AUGUST
August is the eighth month of the year. It is summer in the UK.
The days are long and the weather is hot and sunny.
British people often take a long holiday in August.
SEPTEMBER
September is the ninth month of the year. September marks the start of autumn. In September, the summer break ends and students go back to school and college.
Leaves turn brown and yellow, and fall from the trees.
OCTOBER
October is the tenth month of the year, and the second month of autumn.
People in North America have a different name for autumn. They call it fall.
October weather in the UK is usually good, though it can be wet and chilly.
NOVEMBER
November is the eleventh month of the year, and the last month of autumn. In the UK, the weather grows colder and trees begin to look bare.
Some animals get ready to sleep through winter, and migrating birds fly south.
DECEMBER
December is the twelfth month of the year.
In the UK, December marks the beginning of winter.
Winter is the coldest part of the year. Nights are long and days are short.
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