Happy Father’s Day! Make sure you spell ‘father’ correctly on your card this year. What does father mean? Father is the word used to describe a male parent. In Christianity, God is also sometimes referred to as the Father (usually as the first person in the Holy Trinity) and in some churches (particularly within Roman Catholicism), Father is a term of address for priests. As a verb, the word refers to a man creating a child. Click here for the full Spellzone dictionary definition of the word. Here is father used in some example sentences: My father’s favourite colour is yellow. The boy didn’t know his father. ‘In the name of the Fath...
In this weeks insight into our ever-growing lexis we’ll take a look into an ancient yet hugely popular craft, which originated in the Far East. The invention of paper is widely attributed to the Chinese political official Tsai Lun in the first century. Although paper can be traced to as early as 200BC, he is traditionally credited for the standardization of a papermaking process. It is said that Buddhist monks brought paper to Japan, although paper was still very valuable. It is after this that the Japanese were able to perfect the beautiful and delicate practice of paper folding now known as ‘Origami’. The word Origami is a compound of two shorter and rather obvio...
It’s midweek, that means it’s time for ‘A Word for Wednesday’. This week, we’ve chosen a word that has become commonplace in British culture, yet whose origin is often confused: ‘Gossip’. We are well aware of what the word ‘Gossip’ has come to mean. The general public’s fixation with the lives of celebrities has never been more apparent. We are bombarded daily across the media with often personal reports on the lives of others and these make alarmingly popular topics of conversation. How many times a week are we presented with insights into the private lives of celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Victoria Beckham or even the Royal...
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