1st of October 2004
Ah-ha!
I'm not thick after-all.
"Generally speaking, a fair is 'a gathering of stalls and amusements for public entertainment', whereas fare is 'a range of food' (Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1999). However, the archaic (15th to 17th century) spelling fayre is confusingly used for both words by those who think it lends 'an historick flavour'."
'Fayre', 'fair', and 'fare': which is which?
So when I've used the word "fair" in the past to describe a gathering of stalls and amusements, I was in fact perfectly correct.
Blog #298,
posted at 09:40 (GMT)