Some things in English seem intuitive. Take the verbs "proceed" and "precede," for example. They sound so similar, they must be etymologically related, right? A listener name Ron says he was helping his fifth grader study for a spelling test when they came across "precede" and "proceed." "He struggled with why two nearly identical words are spelled so differently," Ron says. "I thought I could provide him with a simple explanation of their origin -- I cannot." Don't worry Ron. That's why we're