Underwater researchers recently discovered that thresher sharks sometimes stun their prey with a powerful shockwave generated by their tail. Their tail is half the length of the whole shark. Being a literal thinker I wondered how many words there were where the tail was half the length. In other words how many words are there that fit the following pattern: _ _ _ _ T A I L I won’t tell you how many words there are that fit that pattern. Just find as many as you

This week’s list is going to be the words that end in the letter F, but can also have another F placed at the end of the word to make a word ending in two F’s There are 18 words like that, but I will give you the two letter ones as an example: EF + EFF IF + IFF OF + OFF That just leaves you another 15 words, assuming you want to have a little think before you move on to read the list. They are almost all words where the initial word has 3, 4 or 5 letters. There is only one th

I received some good comments about the previous blog which was getting your L plate. A reference to knowing some of the words which can be made by hooking a letter in front of another word beginning with L. Getting you O levels may be a concept in the English education system rather than our own, but it seems the appropriate reference for being good at hooking letters in front of words beginning with the letter O Your quiz this week is to come up as many words as you can by