how do you spell pour if used in the sentence “pour baby”? - Help.com

Poor?
And by the way “poor baby” is no a sentence.

*not

That poor baby!
Don’t pour (spill) your milk!

Hi Kia

As CC says, the correct spelling is “poor”. When you use the spelling “pour”, it means to pour a liquid, such as when you place a jug of milk over a tea cup, tip it up and pour a little milk into the tea.

I have often found difficulty with spelling when I have been writing stuff on my computer. I have been surprised how helpful Google can be on these occassions. For example: Writing this memo to you, I did not know how to spell the word: “surprised”. I typed suprised into Google and it came back with some results. At the top of this list was the question: “Did you mean surprised?”, which of course I did.

There are also some very good dictionaries online. For example: There is http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio… and there is http://dictionary.reference.com/ to name but two. So with Google to alert you to the correct spelling, and these dictionaries to give you the exact meaning, you have a very good resource at your disposal.

You may not even need to enter the dictionary URL directly. If you search for a single word on Google it may give you the dictionary definitions automatically.

Of course, none of this helps when there are several different words that sound the same, but which have different spellings and different meanings. You look up the word “pour” and that is all you get. However, if you go to the following website you can find a list of those words, which sound the same but are spelt differently. These words are called homonyms. They are listed, together with their meanings, on the following website:

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_li…

The list starts with “a” and “eh”. To reach the words beginning with “p”, you will need to drag the thumb, on the scroll bar on the right hand side of the main window, so that you will move down through the list of words shown on the PC screen. You will soon find the words: poor, pour and pore together with explanations of each word.

It might be worth your while bookmarking

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_li…

I will certainly do so myself, just as soon as I have finished writing this memo.

Best Wishes

Richard

OK, I am slightly showing off now. However, having written the above, I realised the links I had stumbled across could be quite useful. I have a website of my own, which I maintain as a hobby, so I have included a slightly reworded version of the above on my website.

If you would like to refer to it at any time, you can find it, hopefully, by clicking on the following link:

a href=”http://uk.geocities.com/ i> small>(email removed) /small> /i>/EnglishLanguage.html#Spelling”>Spelling help on Richard’s Website /a>

Whoops, it didn’t work. My web address has my e-mail address in it and that got stripped out.

OK. I am going to try again. Here is that link:

http://uk.geocities.com/richardgillar…

Tee Hee! That worked. When you get the message from geocities / yahoo saying:

“Whoops! We can’t find your page!” just change the word “at”, in the web address, to an at sign and resubmit. The web page will then be displayed.