Confusables Entry 582 / 1011 60-second read

Weather vs. Wether / Whether

Climate versus castrated ram versus if.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

I don’t know wether to go.

✓ Correct

I don’t know whether to go.

The ruleii

WEATHER = climate. WHETHER = if. WETHER = castrated ram.

Three spellings, three meanings. WETHER is the rarely used word for a castrated ram.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

Rarely: wether."

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