Monday Muddle: peel, peal
Tag: spelling
Monday Muddle: apart, a part
These terms are basically opposites of each other. One means not together; the other indicates that it goes together with at least one additional part. If you are including either term in love notes to your sweetheart, you are going to want to get it right.
Memory Tip: The term without a space–where the letters are all together–is the one that means not together.
Monday Muddle: absence, absenteeism
Monday Muddle: bowl, bowel
Monday Muddle: muster, mustard
Monday Muddle: have, of
Monday Muddle: essential, quintessential
Monday Muddle: two, too, to
Happy New Year! I wish you clear writing and all good things in 2022! Please, if over the course of the year you have occasion to write out twenty twenty-two in words, make sure that you spell “two” correctly. Nobody wants twenty twenty too!
Monday Muddle: plumb, plum
How many of you had plum pudding for Christmas? Was it plum plum pudding? It probably wasn’t plumb plum pudding.
Monday Muddle: merrily, merely
To row merely down the stream does not mean the same as to row merrily down the stream. You can do both, even at the same time. But if you are trying to quote the nursery rhyme, you actually want to row gently down the stream.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream