Every Wednesday for the rest of the year, we are going to spend a couple of minutes at the start of each class looking at particular words – how they are spelt, used and misused, their origins and how they can be adapted into various forms.
Tomorrow we will start by looking at anagrams. Perhaps you know some of your own that you can bring to class. Here are a few to start us off:
Astronomer – moon starer
Schoolmaster – the classroom
Dormitory – dirty room
Punishment – nine thumps
The morse code – here come dots
The eyes – they see
Conversation – voices rant on
Eleven plus two – twelve plus one
A decimal point – I’m a dot in place
Osama bin Laden – A bad one (no lies)
William Shakespeare – I’ll make a wise phrase