err vs heir
Definitions
verb
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- wander from a direct course or at random
Examples
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
Definitions
noun
- a person who inherits some title or office
- a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
Examples
Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
