This familiar idiom began as a poetic image in John Milton’s work and now means that difficult situations can still contain hope.

Wednesday keeps its silent d because the word comes from Old English. The spelling stayed, but the pronunciation changed.

Incidence refers to the rate or occurrence of something. Incidents are specific events or cases that actually happened.

The two dots in words like naïve and names like Zoë are called a diaeresis. They show that nearby vowels are pronounced separately.