Loadstone” This headline writer had heard the word “lodestone” and hasn’t seen it in print.He does not have any idea what it means. He thinks he knows because he knows that word “load” means something. “Loadstone” (lodestone) means a big rock that is a heavy load to carry, right? The writer should limit himself to words of no more than one syllable or 4 letters.
Actually a lodestone is a magnetic rock!
lodestone
noun lode·stone \-ˌstōn\
: a magnetic rock
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