Etymology Explorer Pillows

English Lesson No. 1

Meet The Phrasemakers

Icicle, Bicicle, Bicycle and Icycle.

'Whenever nubilous the nebbish grabbed his gamp.'

"That question you asked earlier piqued my curiosity, Steve..."

"The definitions in this dictionary seem at odds with the words they're describing?"

"'King of the Jungle' comes from the Hindi word 'Jungli', meaning 'not an inhabited place', it does not mean 'lush forest' Dad...."

"Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme takes a celebrity to the most extreme places on Earth!"

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

'He's not a pet. He's an endangered species.'

Physician tending a mummy.

'Upon entering the rain forest...' 'Thousands of unknown species, and we can fool around with the genes of every one of them.'

Dear Diary. . . why, oh why, did I choose an adventure holiday?

Tourists in Egypt

"Yes, six to seven weeks is my life expectancy! Once I learned that, I thought, the hell with it, I'll stop working and start travelling..."

"Can you believe you left your job and family to search for this key, and it was under here the whole time?"

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

Danger Slow Sand.

"We mustn't interfere, Larry. Just let nature take its course."

"Don't move! It's as I suspected, they're attracted to clowns!"

On day twenty nine, Dave decided that he would start to cut his way through the dense forest to find out more about the north side of the island.

"Fantastic! Do you realize what we've just stumbled upon? It's the fabled Lost Glove Compartment of the Ancient Astronauts!"

"Whatever it is, we're up to our necks in it!"

Columbus Discovers that when Exploring, It's Not Such A Great idea to Bring The Family Along.

'Must be the lesser known Easter Egg Island.'

Slugfest!

"Hi, kid! Did you watch 'Sesame Street' today?"

"Well if it comes to that you're not exactly Mr Wonderful."

'If only Darwin could have seen this.'

'Thanks for being up support staff.'

"Caught another one!" "Let's eat!"

"Life after death"

"It's a list of possible side effects."