Wednesday, March 14, 2012

heel, heal

Heel or heel means the part of your foot that is at the bottom of your leg--
She had something in her shoe that made her heel hurt.
New shoes sometimes scrape the back of your heel.
Shoes have heels--
I lost the heel of my shoe!
She has trouble walking in high heels.
The shoe repair place will put new heels on your shoes.

Heal or heal ( rhymes with heel ) means to get better, as an injury--
It took months for his broken leg to heal.
The doctor said that your incision should heal without a scar.
Heal is an old-fashioned term for cure--
He claimed to be able to heal the sick.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"It may take a month for that injury to your heel to heal."

Note--not to be confused with "he'll", a contraction ( short, informal form ) of "he will"--
My brother said he'll drive us to the movies.
Don't give the dog pizza. He'll get sick.

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