IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE – THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH – THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER – TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER – TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT – RESISTANT DEFINITE – CERTAIN
WANTON – DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON – IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
SHOULD OF IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, BUT SPELLING IT THAT WAY MAKES NO SENSE.
CANON is what is official for the work
a CANNON goes BOOM
Something is said ALOUD as in OUT LOUD
But something is ALLOWED or PERMITTED to do something
That coffee one is INCORRECT. “Complimentary” is the correct spelling in both cases.
“Complementary” means two things go well together. So the image should be if cream or a pastry or something.
COMPLIMENT is when someone says something nice about a thing or person.
COMPLEMENT is when e.g. a well-chosen tie improves the look of a suit.
COMPLEMENT is the crew of a ship, staff of a hotel etc. (The complement’s healthy tan complemented their dress whites and earned a compliment from the inspecting admiral.)
TO BREACH is to break through something like a wall, making a BREACH.
TO BREACH is what a whale does as it breaks the surface of the ocean.
BREACH of contract is when someone breaks agreed terms.
BREACH of the peace is a low-level criminal offence.
BREECH of a piece is the rear end of a gun-barrel where the ammunition goes in.
BREECH BIRTH is being born bottom-foremost (a BREACH birth is what an Alien Xenomorph does…)
BREECHES are
uniform, court or period
trousery things which go tight or end at the knee.
PEAL is what bells do in celebration. Thunder and laughter do it too.
PEEL is outer rind, usually of fruit; TO PEEL is to remove it.
TO PEEL OFF can be done with clothes, or facial masks, but is also what fighter planes do when breaking formation for attack or landing.
PEELER is a policeman; like “Bobby”, it comes from Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the force.
PEEL tower is a fortified building on the English/Scottish Border. Sometimes spelt PELE like the footballer, but not pronounced that way.
TOLL is what bells do at funerals.
TOLL is a charge paid to use a stretch of motorway, or cross a bridge. (Or cross a river, and then it’s two coins, one on each eye.)
REIN is a leather strap to control horses; usually plural, REINS, at least one for each side.
TO REIN IN is (literally) to slow down a horse, or (figuratively) to restrict someone’s behaviour.
TO TAKE THE REINS is to take control, except if you’re Tony Stark…
TO REIGN is to rule as Royalty.
It’s also a noun – the REIGN of Elizabeth II began in 1952, but on the day she officially TOOK THE REINS the weather was bad and there was RAIN.
The English language is a never-ending source of confusion from which no spell-checker will save you.
Wanderings and Perigrinations 