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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Thursday's word #71010 05/23/2002 12:02 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada boronia enthusiast boronia enthusiast Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada This week's theme is words that seem to be misspellings of everyday words. Why biennial? I can't tell what everyday word (other than itself) it resembles. Any hints for me? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Thursday's word #71011 05/23/2002 1:18 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Why biennial? I can't tell what everyday word (other than itself) it resembles. You took the words right off of my fingertips. Post Edit: I fed it to m-w.com misspelled as bienial to see what alternatives it came up with. Onliest reasonable choice was biannual which *should mean occurring twice a year but which has the secondary defintion of BIENNIAL. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Thursday's word #71012 05/23/2002 2:52 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I don't see biennial as presenting a spelling problem at all. It doesn't make sense to me why it was included as a spelling problem. biennial: It looks right. bienial: That shore doesn't look right--that would look like something pronounced: bie-EEN-yul biannual: That just sounds altogether different. Of course, if you stare at any word long enough, it starts to appear to have been incorrectly spelled. Wonder what's the psychological term for staring at a word until it begins to appear to have been misspelled? But biennial probably presents more a problem of being used incorrectly with regards to its definition that to its spelling. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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