Up in the sky, jet planes leave vapor trails. They look like white zippers in blue cloth. I think, "Who is up there? Where are they going? What will they see?'' I whisper strange names of places...
Meet the angle family
People have names. And we give names to different kinds of animals. So why shouldn't angles have names? They do! Angles are named after the kind of corner they make. An angle that forms a square...
Eko, eno, esa
If you speak English, you start by counting, "One, two, three.. .." If you speak Spanish, you start by counting, "Uno, dos, tres. . . ." And if you speak Ashanti, a language of Africa, you start by...
Stop at ten
Before people began to count, they probably had no name for any number but one. Suppose a hunter wanted to tell about a small herd of four to six deer he had seen. He might just say it was a "hand"...
What is it?
Some of the very tastiest foods have the funniest names. Most of the time, you can't tell from the name what the food is. But these funny names do tell us that people in all parts of the world have a...
The word that means you
When a baby is born, its family gives it an important gift----its first name. There are many reasons why parents give their children certain names. You may be named after one of your parents, or...
Family names
Is your last name---your family name---Smith? Then, long ago, you had an ancestor who made things out of metal. Is your family name Fields? Then, long ago, you had an ancestor who lived near fields....