Monday, May 11, 2020

Affect versus effect (and iffect, offect, uffect, and yffect)


On May 7, 2020 Zack Weinersmith published a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic titled Know the Difference about affect (a verb meaning to influence something) versus effect (a noun referring to the result of an action). Then he pulled a “Dr. Seuss” by defining four completely new words: iffect, offect, uffect, and yffect. For uffect he provided this example sentence:

“The uffect affected my offect and I felt an iffect effect.”   

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