Spelling lesson of the day

[spooky3]

It’s “bellwether”, not “bell-weather”, “bell weather”, etc.

We don’t want to look like the morans!

[Laelth]

1. Thank you.

I had been misspelling that word for decades.



-Laelth

[LakeArenal]

2. Thanks.

[3catwoman3]

3. Another common misspelling -

- “tow” the line instead of toe the line.

I confess to being a spelling, grammar, proper usage nerd.

I detest the word “impactful.” What’s wrong with good old influential?

[spooky3]

4. All good points! Thanks.

[lastlib]

5. highly irritating mistake: "reign in" s/b "REIN in"!

Only a king can "reign in" (his own country). A jockey will "rein in" his horse to control it.

[question everything]

8. loose and lose

[PJMcK]

6. I am, too

My personal bugaboos include the total inversion of the words skim and scan. When someone says, "I didn't read the document, I just scanned it," they demonstrate that they don't know what the word means. What they did was skim the document. After all, a scanner is a machine that "looks" at something in great detail.

I read something the other day that I'll share. Trees have trunks. Elephants have trunks. Travelers have trunks and so do human bodies. All of which goes to show that there are more things than words.

My dictionary (yeah, I still have one!) is about 4-inches thick containing thousands of words. They're fantastic and fascinating. Trump uses about 125 words because he's an idiot.

[3catwoman3]

9. "I know words. I have the best words."

Not exactly.

He has a pitifully limited vocabulary.

[question everything]

7. Many started using the word impact because they were not sure about affect and effect

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. And the word "wether" (not "weather") is used because

wether is an archaic word for a neutered ram who led a flock of sheep and wore a bell so the shepherd could always hear where the flock was. So, eventually "bellwether" came to mean trendsetter or leading indicator.

[Harker]

11. Definately. n/t