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Narrator: Today's word is "Revolution" — noun, pronounced /ˌrevəˈluːʃn/, with the stress on "lu".
Narrator: A revolution is an attempt to change a country's government by force, or a complete change in how things are done.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a huge change or uprising.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin revolvere, to roll back or turn around.
Narrator: A common collocation is "the Industrial Revolution", which describes the shift to factories.
Narrator: It differs from "reform", because reform improves the system, while revolution replaces it.
Narrator: In a second sense, a revolution is one full turn, as in revolutions per minute.
Narrator: History, politics, technology and engineering all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a revolution turns everything around.
Speaker A: Why is smartphones' arrival called a revolution?
Speaker B: Because it changed everything! REVOLUTION comes from Latin for turning around.
Speaker A: How we shop and talk?
Speaker B: And how we find our way.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The French Revolution began in 1789", history. "A digital revolution", technology. "The wheel turns at sixty revolutions per minute", engineering.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Use a capital R for named revolutions, like the Industrial Revolution.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Upheaval is its cousin, uprising its twin, and transformation an alternative — yet revolution keeps its world-changing charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "revolution" in AI prompts — useful for history and technology writing.
Speaker A: How for history?
Speaker B: Timelines.
Prompt: Create a timeline of key events in the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
Speaker A: And tech writing?
Speaker B: Avoid hype.
Prompt: Rewrite this article so it stops calling every feature a revolution.
Speaker A: Could it help engineering?
Speaker B: Yes, for maths.
Prompt: Convert fifty revolutions per second to revolutions per minute and explain.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Essays.
Prompt: Compare the causes of the French and American revolutions in a short table.
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