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Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:47 AM

Cauldron is one of a very few English words where that cauld bit is related to hot like the French or Italian equivalents

I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:40 AM

Cauldron, the Simpsons take on that?

The Simpsons 

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:33 AM

Spelling? Okay....

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:30 AM

"Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." ―Mark Twain 

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:29 AM

Homophonic synonyms?

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: pdq
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:28 AM

That's the point.

In the US, Grey is a surname, gray is blend of black and white.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: GUEST,#
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:26 AM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:23 AM

Grey, or gray?

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:17 AM

Or, alternatively, alternative?

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling
From: pdq
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:05 AM

Shades of grey?

Subject: BS: Spelling
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:00 AM

I meant alternate, of course.