![]() ![]() The following story uses both words correctly: Reality television, documentaries, and mockumentaries (“The Office” “This is Spinal Tap”) have what are called “confessionals” by characters or players on the show. Some famous soliloquys, like in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” when he says “To be or not to be,” can be found at this link. The purpose of these lines is to share the innnermost thoughts of a character with the audience. The character is not aware that other characters may hear him or her as he/she shares these thoughts. ![]() It is a short conversation a character has with themselves. Soliloquy (pronounced “suh-lihl-uh-kwee”) is a noun. I can’t say I hear this word much outside government proceedings that happen to be televised or otherwise shared with the public. They don’t help you out, but they do make you laugh.Ĭolloquy (pronounced “cawl-uh-kwee”) is a noun. It’s suggesting what word you may want to save time, but quite often, its suggestions are pretty off base. If you used words that are all spelled correctly, it gives you a pass anyway.Īutocorrect suggests words that start with the same letters. It doesn’t know and can’t guess what word you wanted, or what word you meant, it can only judge the words on the page. Spell-check is looking for words that aren’t in its dictionary, and words that resemble words in its dictionary, but are possibly spelled wrong. The spell-check application of most word processing software programs would not catch a slip-up of these two words. Colloquy and soliloquy are easily confused words. ![]()
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