COUNCIL is not COUNSEL.

COUNCIL is a noun, a group of people (town council).

COUNSEL is either a noun (an attorney is sometimes called someone's counsel, or one might seek counsel as in advice) or a verb (to provide advice or help, e.g. to counsel the bereaved).

As usual,

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LEECH is the invertebrate that sucks blood from creatures.

LEACH is the verb. Sometimes it means how minerals are removed from stone by flowing water, and sometimes it means certain light removes the color from (something), and sometimes . . . you get the idea.

My mnemonic? I say "EEEEE!" when I encounter a leech.

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SIGH is not SIGN

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The pain can be a viscous cycle

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... vicious cycle

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Imma give you some hashtags I use in my editing posts, so you'll know what to expect.

#GUMmyStuff is Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (spelling, punctuation, capitalization).

#AmEditing is the standard thing. I use that one when I'm actively working on a project. Sometimes. Maybe.

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou is my creation from years ago, because it's true. Do not depend on any kind of "check" program. They're wonderful safety nets. They are not infallible. Why "cannot?" Because it's incapable of saving you. There's no volition, no "will" involved. It isn't that it will not; it straight up cannot. Can't. Not happening.

There are others I use for non-editing posts, like #LowCarb and #HarrisWalz2024. Self-explanatory.

And sometimes I make them on on the fly, for one-time use. #AmARebel

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WHINY: characterized by whining (a whiny coworker)

WHINNY: a high-pitched sound made by a horse

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CUBICAL is a perfectly fine word that means "cube-shaped."

CUBICLE is also a perfectly fine word for a small space set off by partitions, especially an office area.

These are not interchangeable.

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TTW a post is over 12 hours old, has a half-dozen boosts and even more likes, and it isn't until now that I notice I made a typo in the second word of the headline. 🤦🏻

(It was one of those ones that turns a word into another word that is legitimate, so no red squiggles, but it means something else. The kind for which, as @GramrgednAngel so beautifully puts it, #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou.)

"Recipes that satisfy everyone's palette" does not inspire me to order from you, Every Plate.

I stopped eating crayons decades ago.

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How many new employees do they hire over a three, six or 12-moth period?

——> three-, six- or 12-month period

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