Spelling and Grammar I never knew about!

Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.

Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.

Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, and Daylight Time Shifting more accurate, but neither is politically desirable.

I for one, always said Daylight Savings Time and I was an English Major!  LOL  I love learning something new everyday!

So, don't forget to change your clocks this weekend!  I wish they would just leave the clocks alone and keep it at daylight SAVING time!

It's raining in South Florida today!  I'm still trying to pamper myself while suffering with the Shingles and after speaking to Diane Screnci, she has the same symptoms too!  Hope you are feeling better, Diane.  I'm only on the third day of meds and slowly getter there..........the pain in my back is awful!