SOBRIQUETS

What are Sobriquets?  Well,nick names given to places or persons are sobriquets.some interesting sobriquets for places are

Roof of the world - pamirs

Spice garden of India - kerala

World,s lonliest island - Tristan da cunha

White city - Belgrade

Sugar bowl of the world - cuba

Land of the rising sun - Japan

Land of the midnight sun - Norway

City of the golden gate - San Francisco

Land of white elephants - Thailand

Pink city - Jaipur

City of Skyscrapers -  New York

Land of Maple leaves -  Canada

Some sobriquets for people are

 Mahatma - Mohan das karam chand Gandhi

Saint of gutters   -Mother Teresa

Panditji   - Jawaharlal Nehru

Kaviguri - Rabindranath Tagore

Bard of Avon - Shakespeare

Lady of the lamp - Florence Nightangle

ALL ABOUT NOUNS

Nouns are the first thing we learn in grammar. The grade 2 child also knows that NOUNS are naming words. They are the names of person places, animals and thing.

Let us find out some more of the nouns in detail.
Firstly nouns can be classified into two categories

Some examples - London, Sunday, Eiffel Tower, George,
Mount Everest etc.

Some examples of Common nouns are book, table, bird, river, city etc.

Some Collective Nouns are

ABSTRACT  NOUNS

These are the names of ideas,qualities and feeling
eg.happiness, truth,honest etc

MATERIAL NOUN

These are  the names of materials that make things. eg. Brick,cement,cloth etc.

 Nouns have four genders
Masculine gender shows a male eg. boy,man
Feminine gender shows a female eg. girl,woman.
Common gender shows both a male and female eg.baby
Neuter gender shows non-living things like a chair,table, pen etc.

Find out the meaning of this trending word _ FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

Recently when I came across this word it was very difficult for me to pronounce this word. I looked up the Oxford dictionary and found that this word really exists  - and it meant  " the action or habit of estimating something as useless "

This 29-letter tongue-twisting  word is trending in India. This word was used by a politician in his tweet to announce his book "  The paradoxical Prime Minister. "