Sprinkling away, from Hilary

Dear Word Snoop,

Here are three words I like the best (today.) Sprinkle, sparkle and speckle.

How are you doing?

from a reader called Hilary


Dear Hilary,

I am doing pretty well, thank you! And I like those three words too, very much. I was looking at them and I thought, hey, you can have a sprinkler to water your garden, and you can wave a sparkler in the air at night time - but how come there's no such think as a speckler?

Hmm. Or is there? What could a speckler be?

Thanks for writing to me,

your speckled (or do I mean freckled?) friend,

the Word Snoop