This year our Ten Things each month are words with particular endings. Clearly this won’t be all the words with the nominated ending, but a selection of the more interesting and/or unusual.
Ten Words ending with -ca
yucca
saltimbocca
angelica
basilica
majolica
wicca
erotica
verruca
sambuca
alpaca
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to write a story in at most three sentences using all these words correctly. Post your attempt in the comments before the end of the month and there’s an e-drink for anyone who I consider succeeds.
This year we’re beginning each month with five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. They’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers, so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as have a bit of fun.
December Quiz Questions: 17th Century England
John Aubrey and John Evelyn were fellows of which organisation founded in 1660?
Who married the 15 year old Elisabeth Marchant de Saint Michel in December 1655?
How is Matthew Hopkins (c.1620-1647) better known?
What discovery did William Harvey publish in 1628?
Which influential work on political theory did Thomas Hobbes publish in 1651?
Answers will be posted in 3 weeks time.
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