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Words and Their Stories - VOA Learning English
Nov 27, 2023
Merriam-Webster Chooses ‘Authentic’ as Word of the Year - November 27, 2023
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Nov 4, 2023
Learning English Podcast - November 05, 2023
On today’s podcast, what happens when a foreign student mistakes Miami, Ohio, for Miami, Florida?; the popular expression ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’ on ‘Words and Their Stories;’ then, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson on ‘America’s Presidents.’
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VOA Learning English
Nov 4, 2023
Learning English Podcast - November 05, 2023
On today’s podcast, what happens when a foreign student mistakes Miami, Ohio, for Miami, Florida?; the popular expression ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’ on ‘Words and Their Stories;’ then, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson on ‘America’s Presidents.’
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English 5 - CBTIS 107 Tuxtepec, Oax. México
Apr 7, 2011
Words and Their Stories: Computer Terms.
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
Computer technology has become a major part of people's lives. This technology has its own special words.
One example is the word mouse. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer, or cursor, on the computer screen. Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early nineteen-sixties. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it
had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
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