Showing posts with label muzhik. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muzhik. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2016

music, mucic

Music or music means tones or sounds used to express emotions or ideas, or to evoke memories--
Could you turn the music down, please?
He wants to learn to read music.

Mucic or mucic means derived from an acid usually made from milk sugar, or galactose--
Mucic acid is used in many baked goods.
The tablets used to make soda at home may be made with mucic acid.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He is writing the music for an ad for a fizzy drink tablet made with mucic acid."

Note--"muzhik" means a Russian peasant--
We found an old photograph of a muzhik standing in front of his farm; we think he's our great-grandfather.

Note # 2--"Muzak" is the name of the company famous for making "elevator" music--instrumental, easy-listening versions of pop songs, played in public places--
They play Muzak where we work, and we can all hum every tune.