What is a wheal? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Indulging some idle curiosity about Cornish mining I noticed that many of the mines are named wheal: Wheal Kitty, Wheal Jane and East Wheal Rose, among others But the only dictionary definition I can dig up explains wheal as:-a small, burning or itching swelling on the skin, as from a mosquito bite or from hives a wale or welt
What to call the lump on skin from mosquito bite? I always thought it was wheal too The OED2 has † wheal, n ¹ meaning “A pimple, pustule ” marked as obsolete, with its last citation from 1707 “When she scratched the little Pimples or Wheals that arose on its surface ” But wheal n ² is current: “2 In modern medical use, a flat, usually circular, hard elevation of the skin, esp
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What is this famous example of the absurdity of English spelling? A long time ago I read about this funny example posited by some relatively well-known author who spelled a word (I forget the word) in the most difficult way possible, but in a way that was totally
hyphenation - Hyphen: “well defined” vs. “well-defined” - English . . . 'Well defined' isn't used solely in math It's used in semantics and general English Leaving aside subject-specific usage for a moment, the 'rule' you give in your first sentence is not absolute; I follow CoBuild in hyphenating both prenominal and predicative usages