Do you remember the feeling that used to come over you when your teacher would announce a “pop quiz”? Beads of sweat would come pouring down your face as the papers were handed out, and your hands would shake so much you could hardly hold the pencil straight.A quiz was something to be dreaded, endured, [...]
Most of us probably use the word “hangman” without ever picturing a noose, gallows, or even an executioner. That is probably because from the time we were children, we have played a very non-threatening, non-violent word game by the same name. According to Wikipedia, the game hangman seems to have arisen in Victorian times, although [...]
Almost everyone in America above the age of 10 has probably at some point in their life attempted to solve a word search puzzle.They are one of the most popular word puzzles around, and can be found in books, newspapers, magazines, and school work texts.The first one of these type puzzles (sometimes called Wordseek, or [...]
One of the most interesting things about the English vocabulary is finding out where in the world a word comes from. Did it just appear out of thin air? Did someone see a tree for the very first time and just know instinctively that it was a “tree?” Did the first English-speaking person hear a [...]
