THE STORY BEHIND THE WORD:
“ There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter which luckily I am”.
Do u remember Johnny Depp saying this dialog in ’Alice in Wonderland’? Have u guessed ‘as mad as a hatter’ is going to be discussed now? s? Then let me start with Once upon a time hatters used mercury for making some sort of hats.They faced a health hazard called ‘Mercury poisoning’.Getting mad is the symptom of it and most of the hatters were really mad. Maybe as a similie ,this phrase might have appeared.
ENGLISH NAMES IT AS:
It has become more than usual to see people spending more time in internet.And English has a name for those where 'those' include us where' us' being NETIZENS according to the English language.
If u come across the word ’NETBOOK’,please don’t think that it is a book about Internet.According to the English language,it is a Small laptop computer which weighs less than 3 pounds and has a 7 to 10 inch screen.
If u already alreay come across etiquette(disciplined social behaviour) , EnglishVinglish introduces you to wat it calls disciplined internet behaviour-NETIQUETTE.
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