Unbelievable that the editors of Time -- even on a blog -- would allow the misspelling of bellwether.
“Unbelievable that the editors of Time — even on a blog — would allow the misspelling of bellwether.”
That misspelling would probably make it past a spell checker:
Ann Owed two the Spelling Checker
(original source unknown)
Eye have a spelling checker
It came with my Pea Sea
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weight
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two read,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And it were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas,
And why I brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.
LOL
The origin is from the practice of having a 'wether' - a castrated male sheep, with a bell, lead the flock -
It was a comment from a reader. I don't expect Time or any other blog to proof and correct reader comments.
Umm, mebbe they think it’s what happens when the winds of Change ring in the new? Just a thought... (not that any of them would recognize a wether if it baaaed all over their lattes)...
It’s clear that neither writer nor editor is familiar with the idea of a bellwether. See my #133.
I suspect they might both be, metaphorically speaking, wethers themselves, intellectually and socially, though completely unbelled, followers not leaders.