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Word of the Day for Monday, April 25, 2011marginalia \mahr-juh-NEY-lee-uh\, noun: Notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter. On the huge mahogany table there lay face downward a badly worn copy of Borellus, bearing many cryptical marginalia and interlineations in Curwen's hand. But the scribbled marginalia in Myhre's notebook tells a different tale. Marginalia derives from the Latin marginalis, "the space or edge of something, or something of little importance." | |||||||||
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  Which nation has stronger English skills, China or India?A recent online survey�claims that China has better English verbal skills�than neighboring India, but just barely. EF Education ranked the world's English proficiency through an online survey between 2007 and 2008. The highest-ranking nation in the survey was Norway, China ranked 29th, and India 30th, while Kazakhstan was last at number 44. The survey was... | |||||||||
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