Happenings

During our spelling introduction today Miranda posed 2 interesting questions that I told her I would find out the answers to. So…here they are:

1.  Does the word ‘substitute’ use the prefix “sub” (as in ‘under’)?

To which Mark questioned “Under the teacher?” Which I suppose in some degrees makes sense, but I had to think for a few minutes about it because while it does have “sub” in the beginning…’titute’ is not a root word. So I have to say no, substitute does not use the prefix sub (now if someone else knows otherwise please let me know! Perhaps there is some greek or latin root that I am not aware of?????)

2.  What is the difference between a “sea” and an “ocean”? (this came up as we were discussing our prefix of the week “sub-” and the word “submarine”.)

According to this site the difference is that a sea is partially enclosed by land and seas are smaller than oceans. Furthermore, another site “Tell Me Why“   an ocean is a large expanse of salt water that is bounded by the continents and while a sea is surrounded on all or most sides by land and/or part of one of the oceans.

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