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Word for Wednesday: Stream

It would be interesting to ask different people what their first association with the word stream is. For me, the first thing that comes to mind is Netflix. Others, I’m sure, will think of small narrow rivers, or associate the word with the flow of people or air or smoke. Literary friends might think of stream of consciousness.  In Old English, stream referred to a ‘course of water’ and in the twelfth century, the word started being used to describe ‘anything issuing from a source and flowing continuously’.  Stream isn’t the only water-related word that has been borrowed in reference to technology – in the early days of the internet, ...

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Commonly Confused Words: Father vs. Farther vs. Further

Happy Father’s Day! Make sure you spell ‘father’ correctly on your card this year. What does father mean? Father is the word used to describe a male parent. In Christianity, God is also sometimes referred to as the Father (usually as the first person in the Holy Trinity) and in some churches (particularly within Roman Catholicism), Father is a term of address for priests. As a verb, the word refers to a man creating a child. Click here for the full Spellzone dictionary definition of the word. Here is father used in some example sentences: My father’s favourite colour is yellow. The boy didn’t know his father. ‘In the name of the Fath...

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