In July this year, Mrs. Betty Root, who is in charge of the reading centre at Reading University's Institute of Education, reported 'that there are now more backward readers than ever, in spite of the large number of teaching methods now available'.

The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.

Next, cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless And coffee, caffeineless.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.