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How to laugh in Thai

November 29th, 2017 | by What's What Team

Mobile slang has evolved as a distinct style of writing. Short forms and symbols have overtaken complete words. Where on

July 19th, 2017 | by What's What Team

The inhabitants of La Gomera, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, communicate in a very unique manner: using whistles. The language,

October 3rd, 2016 | by What's What Team

‘Go’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. It is an imperative sentence that is basically used as

September 2nd, 2016 | by What's What Team

Abstemious means ‘sparse use’ or ‘moderate intake of food and drink’; facetious means being ‘flippant’. Apart from their interesting meanings,

August 31st, 2016 | by What's What Team

The island country Maldives, one of the most geographically dispersed countries, is a chain of twenty-six atolls spread around 90,000 sq km.

August 22nd, 2016 | by What's What Team

The word ‘quidnunc’ first appeared around the year 1710, in Irish writer and politician Sir Richard Steele’s journal The Tatler: ‘The