Monday, July 26, 2021

My Bad

I was composing an email asking for financial renumeration for some expenses. My computer spell checker told me the word was wrong. I disagreed, and turned to Google to arbitrate. Imagine my surprise when I found out I have been using the wrong word for years! The Merriam-Webster dictionary said:
  • Renumeration means "to enumerate to count or list again" and is a very rare word.
  • Remuneration is a noun that means "something that remunerates" or "an act or fact of remunerating"

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14 comments:

  1. I had to look up remuneration to see what we were talking about.
    'money paid for work or a service.'

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    1. I find it interesting that every dictionary comes up with its own definition. Curious to know what your source was.

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    2. I just did a google search on remuneration and that was the first thing at the top of the page. I think it's the google dictionary.

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  2. Embarrassing, but only a little. Maybe the people reading your emails did not even notice.

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  3. Yep ... the dictionary is right.

    Another word for you to check - salary. Is it true that the word salary derives from the word salt? Because in Roman times people were paid in salt bags which, at the time, was very expensive?

    God bless.

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  4. oops, I knew that one! Great we have Google.

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  5. I don't think I've ever used remunerate. I have used renumerate. I looked the first up, of course, and found out it means to pay someone for services rendered, sometimes with the added meaning to pay back generously or pay when not expected or required to pay. I also saw this: (all from Webster's dictionary)
    Other Words from remunerate
    remunerator \ ri-​ˈmyü-​nə-​ˌrā-​tər \ noun
    remuneratory \ ri-​ˈmyü-​nə-​rə-​ˌtȯr-​ē \ adjective
    Synonyms for remunerate
    Synonyms

    compensate, pay, recompense

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  6. Well, thank goodness that's a word I've never used!

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  7. I knew that, but in all honesty I think it's because I'd googled it at some point in the past.

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    1. Sounds like you're ahead of me on this one.

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  8. I've never used renumeration, though I know its meaning because its root is numerate, or number, so this means doing it again.

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