![]() ![]() But using unnecessarily fancy phrasing is a reliable way to alienate readers. This tendency still exists: writers are occasionally suspicious of ordinary, familiar terms and replace them with ornate alternatives – sometimes in Latin. Though inkhorn terms can be wonderfully expressive, writers often used them to impress or mystify their readers. Many such anglicised imports failed to catch on ( accersite, illecebrous, obtestate), but others were embraced and remain with us today ( commemorate, dexterity, susceptible). There then followed a counter-fashion for opposing these words and preserving the supposed plain purity of the Anglo-Saxon lexicon. This sparked a vogue for inkhorn terms – so named because they required a lot of dipping in the inkhorn or inkpot. During the shift to modern English, our vocabulary swelled tremendously through borrowings from Latin, Greek, French and other languages. Many take their cue from traditional authorities such as the Fowler brothers, who on page one of their influential The King’s English (1906) told readers: ‘Prefer the short word to the long.’ Writing guides generally agree that short words are preferable. Like many simple style tips, it’s useful but not something you should obey blindly. Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified.We’re often advised to avoid long words in our writing when shorter words will do. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference. On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code "PKGCMP" in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. These generous sets of 150 tiles are pretty sturdy and should endure a good amount of handling.Ī "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. The "wordiest" player wins! Tiles from either set can double as phonics or spelling manipulatives. Players attempt to make as many words as possible from their drawn pile, either separately or intersecting with other words. The game is very scrabble-like, only with a controlled balance between consonants and vowels. Here, you'll use all of the tiles to draw from. Play is a little more free-form using the blank mat side. Otherwise, they return it to the draw pile. In turn, they choose a tile and see if it makes a word with any of their endings. Player(s) use just the consonant tiles, face down (face up for younger players). Playing on this side, the object is to build families. Another has _ight, _ish, _ice, _ide, and _ime. For example, there's a mat with _ate, _ame, _an, _ale, and _ank. In the word chunk rendition, all mats are different, though similar families appear on the same mat. In this set, there are two mats for each short vowel and the families are the same on both, just mixed up. Each of the short vowel mats has word families for a target vowel (_ot, _og, _op, _ox, _ob, for example) on the shark side. You can play with a group as large as 10 or play solo, using as many mats as you'd like. Each game comes with 10 different mats, each with a blank "ocean" side and a formatted "shark" side, and sets of cardboard consonant and vowel tiles (thicker than tag, thinner than puzzle pieces). In the short vowel version, you are building short vowel words the word chunk game has a variety of ending "chunks" to construct words from. The game play in both versions is essentially the same, only the content differs. I like the smiling shark figures that grace the mats and box (kind of reminiscent of Bruce from Finding Nemo). These are fairly inexpensive and simple games that let children practice word construction in a fun context. ![]()
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