Playing Parker Brothers’ Boggle (1976) means constant English tutoring. The tutor shares one such case. Last night, playing Boggle, my wife claimed inter. I thought it was a prefix, so not allowed. She looked it up. Of course she found …
Call them homonyms, homophones, or what you will; the tutor introduces another pair. My coverage of homonyms began with my post of August 21, 2013. Searching up homophone and/or homonym on this site reveals my love of them. Playing the …
English: Homonyms (or homophones): peel and peal Read more »
The tutor returns to a favourite topic. Do you know what mote means? According to Oxford Canadian Dictionary, it’s “a speck of dust.” In a game of Boggle the other day, mote emerged; moat was probably the word the writer …
The tutor shares another word discovery from Boggle. My regular readers likely know we play Boggle with our kids. The other night, I claimed the word brent, thinking of North Sea brent, which is the output from those oil fields. …