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Word of the Day

April 22, 8:37 AM
by Erica Jacobs, Education Examiner
 
 


pedestal--a support or base, as for a column or statue  

This word of the day is for students everywhere, who have adopted a substitute spelling for this word based on phonetics: pedastool. 50% of my students swear up and down that they've seen the word everywhere, and that's how it's spelled. I am continually getting papers about people being placed on "pedastools" of honor.

So this word's for you: to prevent the ignominy of some college professor laughing at your error, or--worse yet--the possibility this error might impinge upon an employer's good opinion of you. Might a professor someday think that this error turns your term paper into fatuous palaver instead of the mind-boggling treatise you know it is, full of just the kind of arcana your professor dotes on? Warning: college professors love the arcane, presented in turgid prose. But they don't like misspellings!
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