The name of that pretty frost that coats trees in the winter?
No dictionaries allowed. Don’t even think about looking it up!
My wife and I are having a discussion on how people commonly spell (and say) this word. It’s time for THE PEOPLE to chime in, so leave your comment with your spelling of choice.
PS: The first ten responses will be used in a highly scientific bit of research.
hoar!
hoar frost
i agree with the above two responses . . . hoar frost.
would be funnier if it was whore. but unfortunately they made a new word for it. hoar.
what does that even mean?
Hoar
It has to be “hoar”. Sounds Canadian, eh?
yep, hoar frost
Okay, clearly the readers of this blog are a nerdier crowd than I’d anticipated. Who’s have thought that I’d get my most comments for a post about spelling!
It’s unanimous… and in agreement with Webster. But at least Jeremy hit the bulls-eye that this is a very stupid word. “Hoar”… it’s words like that that get English nominated as the dumbest language on the planet.
And no, I never spelled it THAT way… even I’m not that dense!
Moving on…