Wrens

[ renz ]

/ rɛnz /

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the Women's Royal Naval Service: established in 1917 as an auxiliary to the Royal Navy.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

Pronounced form of the initial letters, with placement of vowel suggested by wren

The wrens and the nuthatches and chickadees succeed to these abandoned cavities, and often have amusing disputes over them.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
The nuthatches frequently pass the night in them, and the wrens and chickadees nest in them.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
Doves, wrens, and robins are birds of good omen, and the many superstitions regarding them are all associated with good luck.
Animal Ghosts|Elliott O'Donnell
More devoted homebodies than these little wrens are not among the feathered tribe.
Bird Neighbors|Neltje Blanchan

Evidently the wrens, as a family, are not far removed in the evolutionary scale from true water-birds.
Bird Neighbors|Neltje Blanchan