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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSpelling lesson of the day
Its bellwether, not bell-weather, bell weather, etc.
We dont want to look like the morans!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I had been misspelling that word for decades.
-Laelth
LakeArenal
(28,906 posts)3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)- tow the line instead of toe the line.
I confess to being a spelling, grammar, proper usage nerd.
I detest the word impactful. Whats wrong with good old influential?
spooky3
(34,559 posts)lastlib
(23,429 posts)Only a king can "reign in" (his own country). A jockey will "rein in" his horse to control it.
question everything
(47,645 posts)PJMcK
(22,102 posts)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
(24,172 posts)Not exactly.
He has a pitifully limited vocabulary.
question everything
(47,645 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)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.
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