{"id":395,"date":"2008-10-23T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/you-are-wright-edward\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T17:22:11","slug":"you-are-wright-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/10\/you-are-wright-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"“You are wright, Edward.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this in a comment on someone’s blog.<\/p>\n

Problem:<\/strong>
\nThe commenter used a noun where an adjective was required.<\/p>\n

Explanation:<\/strong>
\nThe comment appeared below a blog post<\/a> about three places to shop for Google Android applications.<\/p>\n

The commenter wrote “You are wright, Edward.” and was indicating agreement with what another commenter — named Edward — had written.<\/p>\n

The word “wright” — spelled W-R-I-G-H-T — is a noun that means someone who repairs or constructs something<\/em>. For example, a “playwright” is someone who constructs theatrical plays.<\/p>\n

The commenter should have used the adjective “right” — spelled R-I-G-H-T — which has many definitions, one of which is correct in opinion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For fun, I searched Google for each of the following (with the quotation marks, to avoid variations) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n