How many words…
Without cheating, how many words of more than three letters, can you make from the word ‘tries’? There are at least seven three-letter words, ten four-letter words and four five-letter words… go on, have a go!
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Names, naming and words
Word of the day – tiny…. is it Irish?
Tiny is quite a tiny word, you could, I guess extend it to tinier and tininess, but it is basically quite a small word and although it comes from Middle English, tine, no-one seems sure where it came from before that. Is it associated with the word tine, a prong of a fork? The two […]
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Lichen this gargoyle!
There is something fascinating and endearing about gargoyles… I think there have been many children’s stories about them, although now I’m writing this none come to mind. The word itself is from French and originally Latin, and is connected to the words gargle, gurgle and gullet in English. From when people first started using mortar […]
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