[PROSOUTH]

Okay, I give up, what the hell is “bell weather”? Proves I’m way too dumb to write for Time Magazine.

A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings. The term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep.

In sociology, the term is applied in the active sense to a person or group of people who tend to create, influence or set trends.

In politics, the term is more often applied in the passive sense to describe a geographic region where political tendencies match in microcosm those of a wider area, such that the result of an election in the former region might predict the eventual result in the latter.

[maine-iac7]

Okay, I give up, what the hell is “bell weather”? Proves I’m way too dumb to write for Time Magazine.

LOL For the original meaning of bellwether, see my post #180

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I know what a “bellwether” is, it’s “bell weather” that baffles me.

What appalls me is that a “professional” righter wood yous a meta fore when it is Manny fest that he don’t under stand it reel good.

The FR spell chequer has pronounced the spell in in this post OK!