2022-03-15
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียงfair & fare = “FAIR”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
fair & fare
When you send your daughter off to camp,
you hope she’ll fare well.
That’s why you bid her a fond farewell.
“Fair” as a verb is a rare word meaning
“to smooth a surface to prepare it for being joined to another.”
Dictionary.com:
MORE ABOUT FAIR
What is a basic definition for fair?
Fair describes something as being free of bias or injustice.
Fair also describes something as being done
according to the rules or as being neither good nor bad.
Fair has many other senses as an adjective, adverb, verb, and noun.
If something is fair,
it does not favor one side or the other.
It isn’t tainted by dishonesty or injustice.
If something or someone is not fair,
then they favor one side or are giving an unjust advantage.
For example,
a fair criminal judge
has no prior opinion on whether a person is guilty
and doesn’t treat an accused person differently from anyone else.
A judge who isn’t fair
might think that everyone brought to their courtroom is guilty
and will punish them,
even if the evidence shows that the accused is innocent.
Something that is not fair is said to be unfair.
Real-life examples:
In the United States,
every person is guaranteed a fair trial
when they are accused of a crime.
Businesses are supposed to have fair hiring practices,
in which nobody gets an advantage.
Judges and referees are expected to make fair decisions
and not show support to either side.
Used in a sentence:
I am a fair person, giving every movie a chance to entertain me.
Fair can also describe something as being done according to the rules.
If something is fair, nobody cheated.
For example,
a soccer game in which both teams strictly follow the rules is fair.
A soccer game where one team has twice as many players
on the field at all times is not.
Used in a sentence:
The committee decided the match was not a fair fight
because one of the boxers had used steroids.
Fair is also used in this same sense as an adverb
to mean something was done in a fair way.
Used in a sentence:
When it comes to Monopoly, I never play fair, doing anything to win.
Lastly, fair describes something as being mediocre or satisfactory.
If something is fair, it is not really good or really bad.
It is decent, acceptable, or good enough.
Used in a sentence:
He gave me a fair price on the used car.
Where does fair come from?
The first records of fair come from before the 900s.
It ultimately comes from the Old English fæger,
meaning “beautiful” or “attractive.”
The modern English fair can still be used in this sense,
but it now has many other senses.
Dictionary.com:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF FARE
The English noun fare derives from the verb.
The Middle English verb faren
(also fearen, varen, vearen, fair, faire, feren ) “to travel, go, move
(in space or time)” developed from Old English faran.
The Old English verb has many relatives in Germanic:
Old Frisian fara, Old Saxon faran,
Old High German faran, German fahren, Old Norse fara,
and Gothic faran.
All these verbs come from far-, a Germanic variant of
the Proto-Indo-European root per-, por- “to cross, pass, pass over,
bring through, convey.”
The variant por- is the source of Latin portāre “to carry, transport,”
as well as the nouns porta “gate, door, opening,”
portus “a harbor, a port,” and porticus “covered walk, portico.”
In Greek,
the variant por- forms the noun póros “passage, ford, narrowing,”
as in the proper name Bosporus (Greek Bósporos ), literally, “Oxford.”
The incorrect Latin spelling Bosphorus first appears in
Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and author
who was a contemporary of Cicero,
and it's too late to complain about it now.
Fare in the sense “price of conveyance”
appeared in Middle English, related to
the Old English senses “a journey” and “to travel, go.”
The meanings “to eat and drink” and “food, or the provision of food”
are also first recorded in Middle English.
Dictionary.com:
“Fair” vs. “Fare”: What’s The Difference?
Published March 2, 2022
Fare and fair are pronounced exactly the same
and have many different meanings
spanning different parts of speech,
including nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
This can make things very confusing.
Is it fare well or farewell?
And when you ask someone how things turned out,
should you say How did you fare? or How did you fair?
In this article,
we’ll break down the differences, provide lots of examples,
and give you a handy guide that tells you which word to use
depending on what you mean.
Stick around to the end and see how you fare on the quiz!
⚡ Quick summary
Both fair and fare are commonly used as nouns:
fair usually refers to an event;
fare commonly refers to fees for rides
or to a specific kind of food or entertainment.
If you want a verb, you probably want fare,
especially if it pertains to how things turn out.
If you want an adjective, you always want fair,
which can mean honest, proper, average, pale, and clear,
among other things.
Should I use fair or fare?
Since there are so many different senses of fair and fare,
we’ve created this handy guide
that’s broken down
by part of speech: noun, adjective, and verb uses.
For each part of speech,
we will tell you which word should be usedfor each meaning,
plus some examples of each sense in use.
As a noun
Both fair and fare can be nouns, and both are quite common.
But there are more senses of fare.
| Meaning | fair or fare? | examples |
| an event with attractions or vendors | fair | county fair; book fair; job fair |
| the fee for a ride or ticket | fare | bus fare; train fare |
| the person who pays this fee; the rider | fare | My driver said I was his last fare of the night. |
| a particular kind of food | fare | pub fare; healthy fare; Italian fare |
| something offered for entertainment or consumption | fare | highbrow fare; It was mostly children’s fare. |
As an adjective
Only fair is used as an adjective.
| Meaning | fair or fare? | examples |
| honest, equitable, and free from bias | Fair | a fair decision; a fair trade; That’s not fair!; opposite: unfair |
| proper and according to the rules | Fair | a fair contest; fair play |
| Average | Fair | a fair attempt; The food at that restaurant was just fair. |
| moderately large, ample | Fair | fair income; fair portions |
| having pale skin and light hair | Fair | I have fair skin, so I get sunburned easily. |
| Attractive | Fair | fair maiden; fair youths |
| of weather, nice or clear | Fair | fair weather; fair skies |
| favorable, promising | Fair | The conditions were fair for building. |
As a verb
Fare is much more commonly used as a verb.
Fair can be used as a verb in several ways,
but they are mostly very specific and not commonly used
(many pertain to shipbuilding, for example).
| Meaning | fair or fare? | examples |
| to get on or manage | fare | I hope you fared well at the conference. |
| to turn out or happen in the way specified | fare | I hope things fared well at the conference. |
Is it How did you fare? Or fair?
When you want to ask someone
how something turned out for them,
you want to say: How did you fare?
As a verb, fare means
“to experience the kind of fortune or treatment specified”
(as in She fared poorly in the election)
or “to happen or turn out in a certain way”
(as in Things will fare better, you’ll see).
Fair well or fare well? Or farewell?
This somewhat less common use of fare
meaning “to happen or turn out in a certain way”
is typically paired with well as an adverb,
as in I hope things fare well for him.
The parting word farewell,
which is used as a way of saying goodbye,
is based on the verb phrase fare well
and literally means “May you fare well”
—in other words, “I hope you do well”
or “I hope things go well for you.”
Fair can be used as a verb in several ways,
so it’s possible for the phrase fair well
to be used in specific contexts,
but it’s not common and it’s not idiomatic like fare well is.
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Examples of fair and fare used in a sentence
There are many, many uses of the words fair and fare.
These examples can help you remember how to keep them straight:
- I had a great time at the county fair this year.
- Cab fare seems to get more expensive every year.The cab driver picked up three fares in quick succession.
- I’m a big fan of diner fare, especially late at night.
- The fare at the film festival included both classics and new releases.
- Most people agreed that it was a fair ruling by the judge.
- You agreed that the contest rules were fair.
- Business has been only fair recently, not great.
- My pay is quite fair; I have enough for my needs.
- Fair hair is easier to dye than dark hair.
- We’ve had a nice stretch of fair weather, but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow.
- The conditions are fair for outdoor activities today.
- How did you fare at the grocery store?
- I regret to announce that my attempt at painting did not fare well.
- I had heard the food at the Renaissance carnival was just average, and it was true: the fair fare was just fair, but the price was fair and so was the weather, and all in all we fared well before bidding farewell to the knights and fair maidens.
Take the quiz
We’ve all had our fair share of confusing words,
but hopefully you have a good grasp on these two words.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for fair
Adjective
Fair, Just, Equitable, Impartial, Unbiased, Dispassionate, Objective
mean free from favor toward either or any side.
Fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests.
a fair decision
Just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper.
a just settlement of territorial claims
Equitable implies a less rigorous standard than Just
and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned.
the equitable distribution of the property
Impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice.
an impartial third party
Unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice.
your unbiased opinion
Dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling
and often implies cool or even cold judgment.
a dispassionate summation of the facts
Objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons
as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings.
I can't be objective about my own child
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Fair in Love and War
For many people,
the word fair brings to mind the aphorism
“all is fair in love and war.”
We have been using some variation of this saying for quite some time,
although, as with many such expressions,
it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it began.
As far back as 1578 John Lyly wrote
“anye impietie may lawfully be committed in loue, which is lawlesse.”
We do not see evidence of war juxtaposed with love until 1687,
when Aphra Behn wrote
“All Advantages are lawful in Love and War”
in her play The Emperor of the Moon.
By 1717 this had morphed into “All advantages are fair in love and war”
in William Taverner’s play The Artful Husband.
Finally, by 1789 we find the line used exactly as it is today in the novel
The Relapse: “Tho’ this was a confounded lie, my friend,
‘all is fair in love and war’.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Commonly Confused
An Impartial View of 'Fair' and 'Fare'
Your ticket to sorting them out
What to Know
Fare can either be a noun
relating to the price charged a person to travel
or a verb referring to succeeding, traveling, or eating.
Fair as a noun refers to
any of various large public events.
Fair can also be an adverb related to impartiality
or an adjective with many senses.
Fair and fare are homophones
—that is, they are words that have the same pronunciation
but different spellings and meanings.
Fair to say, they are sometimes confused in writing.
Confusion Between 'Fair' and 'Fare'
Besides pronunciation, they share a grammatical function,
which may also cause some writers to pause
when choosing the correct spelling.
Here are examples in which the noun forms
fair and fare are mistakenly substituted for each other.
(This misuse of fare for fair is rare but, as shown, does occur.)
A 22-year-old Quinte West man has been charged after police say
he allegedly refused to pay his cab fair early Friday morning.
— The Quinte News (Canada), 20 Apr. 2021
Creations on show at the ‘Made London’ craft fare span a range from decorations,
furnishings and jewellery, with items fashioned from
ceramics, textiles, woods, leathers and silvers.
— The East London Advertiser, 14 Oct. 2020
More common is the mistaken interchange of fare,
which is not an adjective,
with the adjective fair, or of fair,
which is not a verb, with the verb fare.
[Rugby Australia] boss Castle is taking a 50 per cent pay cut
and senior executives 30. Rugby Union Players Association boss
Justin Harrison felt that was fare amid the coronavirus pandemic.
— Fox Sports (Australia), 30 Mar. 2020
North Sea coasts with an onshore wind could be,
at least in one or two areas, a little on the cloudy side
and maybe fare weather cloud building in the afternoon elsewhere.
— The Express (UK), 31 May 2021
Similar to other Southern cities, the climate category hurt Mesquite’s r'anking.
But it faired well in the safety category, scoring 86 out of 200 among the cities studied.
— The'' Dallas Morning News, 1 Jun. 2021
This confusion is easily straightened by becoming acquainted with
the words' distinct spellings and different functions and meanings.
With that said, consider this article either a primer
or a refresher on the dictionary entries of fair and fare.
Using 'Fair'
The noun fair generally refers to a large public event
at which there are various kinds
of competitions, games, rides, and entertainment.
Peculiar to American English,
fair is the name for an event at which
farm products and farm animals are shown and judged.
It also designates events at which people gather to buy items
(e.g., a craft fair)
or to get information about a product or activity
(a trade fair or a job fair).
Fair as an adjective has a range of senses.
At the risk of losing your attention,
we will forgo going over them one by one
and instead provide some examples
illustrating common usage accompanied by defining glosses:
The judgment was harsh but fair. [=according to the rules]
The boy thought trading two of his gaming cards for one with a higher power to be fair. [=acceptable]
The deal is fair to both sides. [=the deal does not favor either side]
The student's work has been fair [=average] to good.
The old car was in fair [=reasonably good] condition.
The meteorologist forecast fair [=not stormy] weather for today.
The twins have fair [=very light] skin.
The gallant knight approached the fair [=attractive] maiden.
There is also the related adverb
fair, meaning "in a manner that is honest or impartial
or that conforms to rules,"
as in "My sister never plays fair at card games."
That's a fair introduction to fair.
We now fare onward to fare.
Using 'Fare'
Fare can be either a verb or a noun.
As a verb, it is synonymous with such terms
as get along, succeed, go, and eat.
Here are a few examples:
How did you fare on the exam?
The rookie fared well against the veteran players.
The travelers fared forth at dawn.
Families living in the bowery fare meagerly.
The noun has senses
relating to the price charged a person to travel
on a bus, train, boat, or airplane or in a taxi.
Additionally, it serves as a word for a usually specified kind of food
(e.g., "The restaurant serves Italian fare")
and, by extension, to nonfood material
provided for consumption or entertainment
("The new show is the usual teen fare").
'Fair' and 'Fare' as Nouns
In conclusion,
fair and fare are orthographically and semantically
different but phonetically and grammatically (only as nouns) the same.
In one hand,
there is fair, a noun for a kind of public event
or gathering
and an adjective for describing a person or thing
as impartial, acceptable, moderate, attractive, among other descriptors.
In the other, there is fare, a noun referring to payment
or to food of the literal and metaphorical sort
and a verb relating to experience, travel, or consumption.
The distinctness of fair and fare
in form and meaning is obvious when viewed separately.
Yet, they share a pronunciation and part of speech,
which, with all things considered, is the source of confusion
for some writers who are unacquainted with the words.
Keeping Them Separate
For writers who hesitate at spelling out either fair or fare,
the best action to take is committing the words' uses to memory.
A dictionary, or this article, can assist in that endeavor.
Remember fair is a noun, adjective, and adverb,
whereas fare is a noun and verb.
If an adjective (or adverb) is called for,
fair is the word;
if a verb is wanted, fare is the choice.
But What About 'Faire'?
Before we depart, a word on the spelling faire for the noun fair.
It is an archaic variant that survives in modern English
in the names of historically-themed fairs
and especially Renaissance and Medieval ones
at which "huzzah" is frequently shouted.
Fare thee well in your word choice, dear readers.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
FAIR
Our Living Language
American folk speech puts Standard English to shame
in its wealth of words for describing weather conditions.
When the weather goes from fair to cloudy,
New Englanders say that it's "breedin' up a storm"
(Maine informant in the Linguistic Atlas of New England).
If the weather is clear, however,
a New Englander might call it open.
Southern fair off and fair up,
meaning "to become clear," were originally Northeastern terms
and were brought to the South
as settlement expanded southward and westward.
They are now "regionalized to the South," according to Craig M. Carver,
author of American Regional Dialects.
These phrases may have prompted
the coining of milding and milding down,
noted respectively in Texas and Virginia by
the Dictionary of American Regional English.
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
Fair - fairly
1. 'fair'
You say that behaviour or a decision is fair
when it is reasonable, right, or just.
It wouldn't be fair to disturb the children's education at this stage.
Do you feel they're paying their fair share?
2. 'fairly'
Don't use 'fair' as an adverb, except in the expression play fair.
If you want to say that something is done in a reasonable or just way,
the word you use is fairly.
We want it to be fairly distributed.
He had not explained things fairly.
Fairly also has a completely different meaning.
It means 'to quite a large degree'.
The information was fairly accurate.
I wrote the first part fairly quickly.
Be Careful!
Don't use 'fairly' in front of a comparative form.
Don't say, for example, 'The train is fairly quicker than the bus'.
In conversation and less formal writing,
you say 'The train is a bit quicker than the bus'.
Golf's a bit more expensive.
I began to understand her a bit better.
Be Careful!
In more formal writing, you use rather or somewhat.
In short, the problems now look rather worse than they did a year ago.
The results were somewhat lower than expected.
Many other words and expressions can be used to show degree.
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
fair - fare
These words are both pronounced /feə/.
1. 'fair'
Fair can be an adjective or a noun.
If something is fair, it is reasonable, right, or just.
See fair – fairly
If someone is fair or has fair hair, they have light coloured hair.
My daughter has three children, and they're all fair.
A fair is an event held in a park or field for people's amusement.
We took the children to the fair.
2. 'fare'
Your fare is the money you pay for a journey
by bus, taxi, train, boat, or plane.
Coach fares are cheaper than rail fares.
Airline officials say they must raise fares in order to cover rising costs.
