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Summer

It's "Summer". That time of the year when, in temperate regions, the sun is warm, the weather is nice and often dry (as opposed to wet and rainy) or balmy with the heat (and sometimes humidity) and people dress skimpily, regardless of the "ampleness" of their girth, because they can. In the tropics, we do not have "summer" - the sun is almost always warm - yet we refer to the period of the months of June, July and August as "summer time". For us, those months are fraught with heavy rains and floods - what is "summery" about that? Our schools organize "summer camps" to make some money and to provide a place for those harried parents, who did not or could not "go for summer" abroad, to put the kids for some hours each day. Parents, who have no idea what they want the kids to do during the long holiday from school and do not want to worry about what lessons the nanny will teach the kids or what weird and inapprop...

More Commonly confused words.

10 Commonly confused words - http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-commonly-confused-words/affect-effect.html Principal/Principle - Is the person in charge of the school the principal or the principle? Flounder/Founder - If your ship fills with water and sinks, does it flounder of founder? Flaunt/Flout - If you treat convention with disdain, are you flaunting or flouting the rules? Desert/Dessert - If you receive appropriate punishment, did you get your just desert or just desserts? Flak/Flack - If you're receiving unfriendly criticism, are you taking flack or flak? It's/Its - The car wont start because its battery or it's battery wont start? Fewer/Less - Does the average American can family have less than two kids or fewer than two kids? Pore/Pour - When you're attentively studying, are you pouring over or poring over the materials? Stationary/Stationery - Did you buy writing paper in a store that sold stationary or stationery? Affect/Effect - ...