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If you’re the parent of a school-aged child you will be reminded at how illogical the English language is. Children can often learn words such as cat, sat, hat, extremely quickly, but when it comes to “tricky words” (a word that cannot be sounded out phonetically) like
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It’s surprisingly hard to dive into the water elegantly and leave very few bubbles. I had also not considered that staying very still underwater (not…
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