The QuillSpell cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Etyma Latin Quarter — Latin roots (port, scrib, dict, vis, audi, port) -
Sophia Greek Acropolis — Greek roots (bio, geo, photo, log, graph, phon) -
Birch Germanic / Old English Grove — short, punchy Anglo-Saxon roots (mouth, hand, foot, hear, see, walk) -
Saga Old Norse Longhouse — northern roots (sky, take, gift, raise, weak, scant) -
Margaux French Chateau — Norman-French roots (royal, chef, ballet, garage, hotel, courage) -
Zayn Arabic Oasis — Arabic-origin English loans (algebra, algorithm, alchemy, zenith, sugar, cotton) -
Hush Silent-letter clan (kn-, gn-, wr-, mb, gh, pn-, ps-) -
Twin Double-consonant rule (running, beginning, hopped, planned — short-vowel-CVC + suffix) -
Ember Schwa-keeper (the unstressed-vowel "uh" — ‘about’, ‘pencil’, ‘lemon’, ‘circus’, ‘medium’) -
Wren Vowel-team duos (ai, ea, ee, oa, ow, ie, oi) — "when two vowels go walking" -
Affix Suffix-stack guardian (root + suffix + suffix: nation → national → nationalize → nationalization) -
Cadence Syllable-rhythm master (di-vid-ing words for spelling: VC/CV, V/CV, syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion)