different ways to say hello in other languages
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15 ways to say ‘hello’ across the globe

 

The main use of hello is, of course, to greet others, and it has many other variants which also are used to greet others,…

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While it is commonly used in psychology to describe a type of mental illness, mania can also mean ‘an obsessive enthusiasm for a particular thing’ in a broader, everyday sense.
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36 words ending in –mania

 

Like the combining forms –phobia and –cracy, which we have discussed previously, –mania forms part of numerous English words.…