These interesting facts about spelling words promote further investigations into other words. The numbers in parentheses indicate the grade level and the lesson number in Everyday Spelling from which the word was taken. Adolphe Sax invented a new musical instrument in 1840. To give it a name, he added his own name, Sax, to the word phone which is the Greek word for sound. This made the name saxophone.
Saxophones are still around today.
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