Put that strange plural in parentheses
parenthesis is singular
parentheses is plural
Ice house, ice box, Frigidaire, fridge, …
The appliance that keeps your food cold is called a refrigerator or fridge.
Before artificial refrigeration was common, communities had ice houses where lake ice was stored. They would have the ice delivered and kept in an ice box. At the beginning of the 20th century, artificial food refrigeration was invented.
The first self-contained mechanical refrigerator was invented in 1915. It was sold by the Guardian Frigerator Company which later became Frigidaire. That is where we get the word fridge but it is not part of the word refrigerator.
Careful not to spell all words as heard
liberal means not limited to traditional views.
libral is related to libra, the Ancient Roman unit of weight.
Saturday, in the park…
Saturday, not Saterday
It comes from Saturn Day.
He threw the ball through the tire swing
theirs, there’s
theirs means something belonging to a group of people
there’s means a contraction of there is or there has
threw, through
threw means that someone caused something to move rapidly through the air
through means to pass from one side of an opening to the other
thrown, throne
thrown means that something had been caused to move rapidly through the air
throne means an ornate chair for a king or queen
Thanksgiving vocabulary
autumn, not autum
Corn is also called maize, which is a strange spelling since it is a type of grain of the species Zea mays
pumpkin, not pumkin or punkin
giblets, not jiblets
grateful, not greatful
He was taught to make the rope taut
seamless, seemless
seamless means without seams
seemless is not a word
taught, taut
taught is the past tense of teach
taut means under tension [like a rope]
Mispronounced then misspelled
perseveres, not perserveres
verbiage, not verbage
Commonly misspelled words
threshold, not threshhold
tomorrow, not tommorrow
unfortunately, not unfortunatly
vehicle, not vehical
weird, not wierd
withold, not withhold