Would you lead or led a horse? Do you leaf or leave to go shopping? Does your hot water heater have a leak or a leek? Is a lean or a lien the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person?
What is hoar and what does it have to do with frost? If you store away a lot of goods for future use, do you hoard or horde? Would you ride a hoarse or a horse? Does water spray out of a hoes or hose? hoar, whore Hoar is a shortened way of saying hoarfrost.…
December 25 has always been a holiday, but it hasn’t always been Christmas. What the Romans celebrated on that day was not the birth of Christ. The pagan festival of Saturnalia took place at this time. The birth of Mithra, the god of light, was celebrated on this day. The story of the conception, birth, and death of Mithra is very similar to the story of Jesus. Mithra is even supposed to have resurrected from the grave.
When I think of monsters, I think of scary movies and childhood nightmares. Thanks to my vivid imagination, monsters were always hiding underneath my bed, in my closet, or in the room around the corner. And never wanting to be seen in the light of day, they were always hiding in the dark. Not all…
