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Yesterday was interesting. I had a few questions about vocabulary that I think are worth telling all of you about.

First was about “wearing”. I had to explain the difference between “wearing out” and “wearing off”.

Wearing out is used for, for example, shoes. To wear out is to use something heavily or for a long time until it is no longer useful. I wear my shoes everyday for two years until they are so damaged that I can not wear them any more. I wore out my shoes. He is wearing out his jeans.

Wearing off is often used with medicine. For example, I had hay fever yesterday and took medicine for it in the morning. Last night, in class, I was feeling bad because of hay fever since the medicine from the morning was losing power or getting weaker. It was wearing off.

Hope you understand and can use these two in your conversations.
I used my ktai phone so much I wore out the battery. My headache is coming back. I think the aspirin are wearing off. The taxi drivers tires wore out soon. I was sick flying to Japan but it is wearing off.

Oh yeah, about the pictures. I often walk about town taking pictures and I have learned to look up. Sometimes some very pretty pictures are missed because we don’t look up.

Have a great day,

Randy Miller RCC

1. “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from
the achievement of one’s values.”
- Ayn Rand

2. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
to improve the world.”
- Anne Frank

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