Oh my word Carol, Coral, Choir

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Have you attended any choir during the Christmas and New Year, or listened to any carols?

Have you attended any choir during the Christmas and New Year, or listened to any carols?
Carol is a joyful song. Carol is a joyous song sung at the time of Christmas. Carol is a Christmas hymn. Carols is a plural noun. Carol singers usually visit people’s houses at the time of Christmas, and sing carols, and collect money for charitable purposes.

Carol also functions as a verb: to sing carols; to sing joyfully. Its variants are carolled, carolling but note that in the American (US) English only single ‘l’ is used: caroled, caroling.

The neighbours’ children gathered and went to the church for carolling. Some pupils with an instinct for music could start their musical careers as carol singers.

Carol comes from old French word ‘carole’. Other derivatives of carol are caroller (or caroller): a person who sings carols. Who would not want to sing carols…the song of joy…A God is born! Choir is an organized group of singers who perform in church services.

Are you part of a choir in your school or at a cathedral?
Choir also refers to the part of church where choir singers sit: choir stalls.
Choir can sing carols!
Choirboy is the one who sings in a church choir.
Choirmaster is the person who trains a choir, and conducts it.
Cathedrals and colleges can also run parallel choir schools.
Have you seen a coral? What a beautiful work of nature in the sea!
Great Barrier Reef is a largest coral reef located in Australia.
Coral is the hard calcareous substance secreted by marine animals such as cnidarians. These secretions form a continuous layer after layer forming a large mass called reef.
Coral is a sedentary (not mobile) and colonial (colony) cnidarian of warm and tropical seas containing calcareous, horny, soft skeleton that forms into reefs.
Red coral is a pinkish-red horny coral used in making ornaments, jewellery.
Coral also functions as an adjective. Coral in this refers to the pinkish red-colour (She prefers to wear coral jewellery), and things that are made of coral (The shop sells souvenirs made of coral stuff).
Coral is derived from the Greek word ‘korallion’.
Coralloid functions as a noun and an adjective.
Coral island is an island formed by the growth of corals.
Coralline is a noun. Coralline is seaweed of the genus Corallin. Coralline contains a calcareous jointed stem. Coralline as an adjective refers to: of or like coral.
Carol likes only coralline ornaments, and to holiday in a coral island, and to sing carols!

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