Ms+Horn

We've been studying numbers and looking at words which show their meaning through a number. We've used our knowledge of French and other languages to help us. Here are some 2 examples - have a look at our pages to see some more of our favourites.

 ** Cargoes ** Quinquireme **of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. **
 * John Masefield ** 

A quinquireme was a Roman ship which had 5 rows of oars - in Greek they were called penteres (can you think of any words in English to do with 5 which have pent in them? They were the original heavy warships, until polyremes were built. You could also have triremes and quadriremes. (Source: wikipedia)