Annetta Cheek heads the Center for Plain Language in Silver Spring,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

However,putting a silver sixpence inside a shoe is generally not a tradition followed by brides in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In eighteen ninety, when the Silver Purchase Act was passed, the government held almost two hundred ninety million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

American investors and bankers were afraid their money would drop in value because of the use of silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the silver leaves that moved in the evening breeze.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

In the United States in the early eighteen hundreds, fifteen ounces of silver had the same value as one ounce of gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The extra gold increased the supply of money in the same way silver would have increased it.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

They were afraid their money would drop in value, as more silver money was put into use.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The debate over gold and silver was especially important because of an economic depression that began in the United States in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

The mens four-member Nordic team finished second in the Nordic combined race for a silver medal.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

That was when mines in the western United States began to produce large amounts of silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In the spring of 1837, the demand on banks for gold and silver grew too heavy.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

One day not long after, Ed Schieffelin finally did discover valuable silver ore in the area.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

In eighteen seventy-one, Germany declared that it would no longer support its paper money with silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

You might say such a person, "was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Many congressmen supported silver money -- especially those congressmen from silver-producing states in the west.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The new law increased the amount of silver money used in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The woman's body is covered with silver tiles which shine brightly in the sunlight.

VOA: special.2010.05.07