It's wane as far as I know.

- Andrew

thanks... spelling error.

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-Dik

dik,

Wain is a wagon. Wane is something reducing in size.

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Thanks... just looked up wain, again, and one of the meanings is a farm type wagon. Not a word I've used often, but it seemed appropriate. A matter of checking the spelling before use, and couldn't find it... spelling error...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

Yes, the proper spelling is 'wane'. The word 'wain', which is archaic, refers to wagons and carts, hence the word 'wainwright' as one who builds and maintains wagons and carts.

Now I've seen the word 'wane' many times, a common example is referring to the 'waning' Moon. That being said, I can't recall any situation where I've actually used it myself.

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Thanks, guy...

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-Dik

what can I say ... archaics are us ?

another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?

and yeah, I've learned not to trust spell check, particularly on a word I'm not that sure about. I'll check the definition of the word spell check wants in google ... 50% of the time "no, that's not what I mean".

for me in the early days of checking a guy handed in a report with "assess" spelt "asses". his excuse was "well, Word didn't complain" ... yeah, 'cause it is a word, only not the one you mean.

another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?

... thanks, everyone. I guess the difference between an Arcitect and an Artifact is about a decade.

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-Dik

Waxing and waning are used once every lunar month to denote the increasing and decreasing percentage of the Moon being illuminated by the Sun.

Interestingly, "waxing" in common parlance refers to the removal of certain things from certain parts of the certain people's bodies

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Waxing has a direct connection with ouch!....

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)

But as to the title of this thread, perhaps it is a scot. Wainscot, you know.

Yeah, spellcheck can do you wrong.

So, about 20 years ago, I had just started a new job. I was handed a copy of the annual report, which had just been printed but not mailed yet. I found a type, which resulted in us going through 1300 copies and by hand inserting the l in public.

My glass has a v/c ratio of 0.5

Maybe the tyranny of Murphy is the penalty for hubris. - http://xkcd.com/319/

To wane on your parade means that you parade will be dampened.

Skip,

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for a NUance!}

ACtrafficengr,

Google now makes it fairly difficult to search for "pubic accountants". but there are lots of them out there. Vincent Flanders of Web Pages That Suck, recommends deleting certain words from your spell checker.

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What the feck is a spellcheck?

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

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Skip,)

Wascally...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

...that is, in a pun-derful way.

It could take some word-smithing.

BTW, when I started out as a newly graduated engineer, an old codger where I worked and I traded shaggy dog stories that often required a series of shaping and refining (word-smithing) exercises. That stated me on almost 6 decades of playing with words that has been mostly a self amusement that I share with others on semi-rare occasions. 😉

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A story I can across several decades ago was that a university, to be of greater service to students, tied all their dictionaries together so that students of various languages could spell check papers describing differences and so forth. Unfortunately it was soon discovered that almost any combination of vowels and consonants was a word in some language.

What I have thought would be a useful thing is an extraction of words in alphabetical order from documents, presented to the user, repeats represented only once. Then just look at the list to see if there are any words one would be unlikely to use. This avoids the read-over problem where people know what the word is and skip the misspelling.

It still doesn't fix "their" and "there".

Shoot - then it was a completely stupid idea. How was I to know that listing words the writer did use would not clue them in that they were words they did not intend to use?

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You didn't really think that was a good, sound idea?

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This has been posted here earlier, but evidently, it needs to be posted again.

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise

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Better than any you offered, dik.

Great...

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https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479...

Words to know for crossword puzzles.

Ted

Wain - archaic
Wainwright (surname or trade) - not so much

Apropos of nothing, you only need to add one letter to go from outage to outrage.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

Yup... thanks

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-Dik

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It still doesn't fix "their" and "there".

One of the more common language error's.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

To say nothing of "to", "two" and "too" or the rule for the use of "a" versus "an".

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Redundancy is what whacks my brain the hardest.

For example, sentences starting with 'as well' and ending in 'also'. Or vice versa.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

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and "they're", and 'i' before 'e', except after 'c'.

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-Dik

...And when pronounced like "A'
as in neighbor or weigh
and miscellaneous other weird words.

It's enough to insight a riot, I tell you!

My glass has a v/c ratio of 0.5

Maybe the tyranny of Murphy is the penalty for hubris. - http://xkcd.com/319/

Reminds me of George Bernard Shaw's 'Ghuti', for 'fish'.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

Sadly, spelling, grammar and punctuation errors are not on the wain.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

Another book I can recommend is 'Fumble Rules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage', by William Safire.

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I almost got this for my nieces and nephews. I should have!

My glass has a v/c ratio of 0.5

Maybe the tyranny of Murphy is the penalty for hubris. - http://xkcd.com/319/

LOL Artisi ,,, You are correct:)

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Do you feel any better?

-Dik

we've done that worst radio alphabet ...

knight is for K
etc

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The only place I hear wane is 'the moon waxes and wanes' (two archaic words in one phrase), and every English schoolchild knew wain from Constable's painting.

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It shows in wainscot, and I'm only familiar with that because I remodeled a house a while ago.

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GregLocock,

The last time I saw the word "wain" was when I recently re-read Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was heavily into archaic language.

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Wayne's wain waned.

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