Showing posts with label common weal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common weal. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

wheel, we'll, weal

Wheel or wheel means the round things used to propel vehicles and other devices--
The garage has a machine to take the tire off of the wheel rim.
One wheel was loose; he could tell by the way the car shook.

We'll ( rhymes with wheel ) is a contraction ( short, informal form ) of "we will"--
We'll stop for pizza after the movie.
We'll be there about 9 o'clock.

Weal or weal ( rhymes with wheel ) means well-being or prosperity--
The politician made a series of speeches about taxes and the public weal.
We pay our taxes to contribute to the common weal.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Then we'll raise taxes again to improve the public weal, like a hamster in a wheel."

Note--"well" ( no apostrophe, rhymes with bell ) means in a good way--
He does that well.
She plays well.
Well also means not ill or sick--
Get well soon.
Well is also a deep hole dug in the ground as a source of water--
He went to fetch some water from the well.
Note # 2--"common weal" ( two words, or rarely, one word, "commonweal"  ) means the common lot or level of prosperity--
Free public schools were meant to improve the common weal.
"Commonwealth" ( one word ) means a political entity, like a state or province--
I am a resident of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Note # 3--"common wealth" as two words, could be used in a sentence--
They pooled their money, since with their common wealth they could afford to buy the car.