We’re coming up to the end of Daylight Saving Time. Not Daylight Savings Time. Just plain ol’ “saving”—with no “s” at the end.
Savings refers to money most of the time, and this changing of the clocks isn’t about money (except perhaps indirectly).
We are apparently “saving” daylight when we turn the clock ahead. So it’s just Daylight Saving Time.
Hope your body adjusts quickly!
I was, until my retirement, a film professor (see http://www.film-prof.com). My students had to do a few papers that analyzed some aspect of a film. Some chose to write about color, and I’ve often been treated to an analysis on pallets, palates, and palettes. Of course, only one of those is correct; the other two, to be fair, are amusing to visualize, and provide the occasional guffaw.
This is a palette:
It’s what painters use to hold their paints. It also refers to the range of colors in an image or film.
This is a palate:
This is also referred to as the roof of your mouth.
And finally, this is a pallet:
A pallet can also be a straw mattress or a makeshift bed.
My students, of course, usually meant “palette” when they wrote, because they were writing about the use of color in a film.
The biggest thing to remember is that there are three words that sound exactly the same but mean different things. And in the spirit of full disclosure, I confess that sometimes I have to look up the word to make sure I’m writing down the right one!
This is a version of an earlier entry, but there’s too much misuse of these words to change this awful trend in one little entry.
Never, ever, ever, ever say “Him and I did such-and-such” or “Her and I are going to the mall” or whatever. These are such grievous grammatical sins that one should hang one’s head in shame.
Say “He and I did such-and-such” or “She and I are going to the mall.”
The simple thought here is that if someone is doing the action, we say “he” or “she” is doing it. If something is being done to or for someone, we say “him” or her.”
Correct:
She and I are friends.
He and I are in the same class.
She and Fred went to the movies.
He and Emma are the worst couple ever.
Incorrect:
Her and I are friends.
Him and I are cousins.
Her and Fred hated the movie.
Her broke up with Emma, thank goodness.
Just keep saying “He and I” and “She and I” over and over until you can’t say anything other than that when beginning a sentence.
If you know all this and have it down, God bless you!
Dedicated to Grammar 