Partially blocked sinuses are omnipresent, I guess.

Etymology shows that the word "canister" is not related to "can" at all.

The amount of words in English is mesmerizing.

"You ignite the moxa stick and let it burn," I said.

"Moxibustion and acupunture are complementary in TCM."

The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary states that acupressure was originally from Japan, in its respective word entry.

But it was from China, and it's a part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Japanese had learned it from China long time ago, supposedly.


The boon of acupressure is that anyone can be the masseur or masseuse, so that it can be done at home.

I often misheard "pears" as "pairs."

The vowel sound in "pear" is not the same as in "appear," "dear," "fear," "gear," "hear," and "sear." But it is the same as in "bear," "wear," and "year."

Sometimes it feels like that the verbosity, or sprawl, of English is out of control.

Just few examples. There's "for instance," there's "for example," and there's "e.g." In addition, there's "exemplary," as well as "exemplifiable."

Today, I've found out that apart from "exaggerate," there exists "overexaggerate." And second-graders are constantly uttering the latter.

It's "bunk bed," not "bunker bed."

Taken at face value, the word "grandfather" looks grander than "forefather", doesn't it?

In reality, it's the opposite way.

The blogosphere in China has significantly withered.

Many blogging websites have died or been cancelled, for instance, the blogs at http://www.ifeng.com/ .

Emblazoned T-shirts are very popular.

But I don't think they are good clothing generally.

茶叙珠江，一盅两件。