Thursday, March 1, 2018

It just SPRINGS to mind!

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Where do the names for the seasons come from? Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall?), Winter. Click on the link and read all about it!

Je suis le meilleur! says New Zealand Scrabble champ

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Winner of French Scrabble does not speak French! Read the article in link above and you will see that it may be that it is the MATHS spies...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Pound the daylights out of it! from Betty Autumn's mom

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Hello Word Snoop.  This is Betty Autumn's mom from Vermont, USA. We stumbled into some serious word snooping today at a museum of life...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

A dangerous comma ...

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Dear Spies, Be careful with your commas or you might end out in court, as you will read in the link here.  Beef with Coles over missing ...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Esperanto-muzeo!

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Dear Spies, If you've read "The Return of the Word Spy", you will have read all about the invented language Esperanto. Well,...

I can't quite read your writing...

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Dear  Spies, Just so you know it's not only children who have to learn to improve their handwriting! (And between you and me, the Word...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Please don't be shocked! from Charlotte

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Dear Word Spy, I was reading a freaky fact book and found the contents page. One particular chapter I came across was the weird words. T...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Learn to SPEAK Latin camp? Ita vero!

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Dear Spies, I alas am too old for this (and also I don't live in the USA) - but what a truly wonderful idea. An immersion camp...
Monday, February 27, 2017

"Greek like that will surely come my way, hey hey hey hey"

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Dear Spies, You have to hand it to these students of Koine Greek (Greek that was spoken from about 300 BC -300 AD) - they will do anything...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

No entiendo, said the parrot

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Dear me!  I think this might be an avian word spy.... British parro t missing for four years returns speaking Spanish British owner ...

Dictation, dictation, dictation!

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Dear Spies, Well, the things people used to get up to for fun ... In 1857 the French writer Prosper Merrimé was asked to produce a REALL...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Алфавит! (I mean ALPHABET!)

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Dear Spies, Well if you've mastered the Greek alphabet through a cow bell song (see last post) now you can move onto the Russian alpha...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Alpha beta gamma delta ep-si-lon - la la la!

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Dear Spies, Have you ever wanted to learn the ancient Greek alphabet? Here's a video to help you - complete with cow bell! Ha...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

How to speak to your rabbit

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Dear Spies,  Ever wondered what language rabbits speak? The writer, Richard Adams, who wrote the bestselling novel of rabbit li...
Friday, February 10, 2017

I've got an apple to peel with you...

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Dear Spies,  In the link below there is a list of expressions from languages and countries around the work, using different foods to ...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Rebus code?? from Sara

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Hi Word Spy,  I'm very stuck on one of the codes in your first book the word spy. chapter six with the Rebus codes!! from Sara He...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Guinea pig latin? from a fellow word spy

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Dear Word Spy, I-ay ove-lay ig-pay atin-lay!  However, I have one desperate cry for help.  How do you speak guinea pig latin????...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

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Dear Word Spies, I wonder if you can work out the titles of  books using these emoji puzzles at this link: https://www.bu...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

shiaHn pohem! from Harriffan

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Attention Word Spies  - an amazing missive from Harrifan..... Ursula Dubosarsky waq, shiaHn pohem yiu, traj! wir drak. yupa, Har...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Invented language for subterranean aliens... from Harri

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Dear Word Spy, I was reading your  Word Spy  books, and was inspired by the sections on invented languages. I have a few characters that...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

A cry for help! from a fellow word snoop

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Dear Word Snoop, Chapter 4 is a little hard. I just can't get REAE in the lipogram. The rest looks like it is AND DASTARLY CODES. I co...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A cry for help! from Anonymous

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Dear Word Spy, In "The Return of the Word Spy"I know about the turtle and the horse but I can't find out what the rebus m...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Hats off!

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Well my spies, I don't know if you speak (or write!) French, but the Academie Francaise, who are in charge of this sort of thing in Fran...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Latin and Greek boost reading and maths skills!

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 (The Times)  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article4650548.ece

(it's a cafe)

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                       (spotted in Paris by the Word Spy)
Sunday, January 31, 2016

@#&(*&)*&#)@(#*&!*#!&^*????????

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Dear word spies, Look at this wonderful ancient writing! It is on the  Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.The writing is hierogl...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

"A E I O U" tralalalalalalalal!!!!

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The Song of the Vowels restaurant in Paris. Named after the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's poem - click here to read it!

I've finally done it!! from James H

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Dear Word Spy, After a couple of years I finally decided to figure out what the codes, in your first book, mean. It took me a little whil...

An animal - or...? from Unknown

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Gd'day Word Spy,I just wanted to ask for a little help in solving the rebus in your second book.Apart from knowing that it's an anim...

Banana or Banana? (or let's settle for a mango!)

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The quirks of pronunciation

A clean sweep? especially for French-speaking Word Spies

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Here's a French rebus spotted in a market at the Avenue du President Wilson that's a bit easier!