Finding your bright path…
Finding your bright path…
Reading for curious families
Short stories about English words: why spellings look the way they do, where odd names come from, and which famous facts turn out to be myths. Each article lists the sources its facts come from.
Why is there a k in knight and a b in debt? Most silent letters were once sounds people said. A few were added by writers and never spoken at all.
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A pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows. Which animal group names do people really use, and where did the fancy ones come from?
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