Showing posts with label Red Sox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Sox. Show all posts

Aug 16, 2013

Socks and Sox

The Red Sox and White Sox baseball teams have the “Sox” spelled that way, because they were named during the time when there was a movement to simplify the spelling of many English words. Socks became sox, but tradition won and the spelling of sox did not catch on as part of the language.