Exams or Egg-jams!!!

Exam time for me folks!!!
I don't know why but it is when the exams are fast approaching and i dnt know an iota that i am at my creative best...(please don't go by the quality of my blogs to judge my creativity). I find things to do... thoughts to ponder upon... topics to discuss with people.. that all of a sudden vanish the moment the exams are over. Even the television networks are against me.. always will the movie that i av been waiting to see for ages be shown during my exams(not that this stops me from still watching it)...

The very basic problem that i face during exams is that i don't start studying till the very end. Moreover i read. Yes!!i read. Be it theory,numericals,mathematical solutions,derivations and even diagrams. The pencil that i always have in my hand during studying is meant for just underlining a few lines that i deem important... my book still looks new at the end of the session. I like to handle my things with upmost care... Now don't misinterpret my reading habit as Mugging up or cramming. What i mean by reading is actually reading- Just like one would read a Harry Potter (though with a little less enthusiasm).. i am a fast reader. just like i finish a novel in like 2hrs or so, similarly my course finishes in 3hrs or so. Then the problem arises that i need to go through it again inoreder to actually get reday for my exams. In between my exam-reading bout..i may wander around, read newspaper etc.

so that was all about how i prepare for exams. A sudden random though struck me (like i said my mental juices work the best during exams).. why do we pronunciate words the way we do. WE know that the curretn pronunciation of a word is lets say X, after a few years X is the wrong way it is supposed to be pronounced as Y.

Let me cite a few instances. When i was young(i still am)..i mean in school like in class 4-5, the word 'EDUCATION' was pronounced as 'ee-ju-ca-tion'. Some years hence we were told it should be 'ee-DU-ca-tion'. Now everyone who uses the former is looked at as though his ee-du-ca-tion was incomplete. 'OFTEN'..the correct is i think- 'of-en' but i few days ago an amercanised friend of mine said 'of-ten'. Thats not all. We pronounce the word 'ANTI' as 'an-ty', i saw on television people using 'an-tie'.. little wonder somedays later i will be informed that the american way of saying it is correct. 'SULTAN'-- 'sul-ta-aan' becomes 'sul-tn'. THe evergreen debate that i find is on how to say the word - 'LINUX'. I have had the best of people debate on it. Some say - 'lee-nux' other say it is 'lie- nex'. Someone clear me of my dilemma.

To end with.. all of a sudden i remember when i was around 7 or 8.. i used these words to impress my dad. I asked him would he like a 'botch-quitch' of flowers.. that was my way of interpreting the word 'Bouquet'(book-A).. next one i was like what a 'cha-os'.. that was the word CHAOS( k-os). THe way the mind of a child interprets things. I just wish english was simpler.