La diferencia entre “Hail” y “Hale”

“Hail” y “hale” son fáciles de confundir porque suenan idénticos (es decir, son homónimos perfectos). Sin embargo, sus significados son muy diferentes. Cabe destacar que “hale” es una palabra rara, pero “hail” es una palabra común.

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“Hale” describe a una persona mayor que está libre de defectos, enfermedades o dolencias.

Para todo lo demás, usa “granizo”.

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Las palabras “hail” y “hale” son homónimas (específicamente, homófonas) porque suenan idénticas. Sin embargo, sus significados son bastante diferentes.

Hail

La palabra “granizo” tiene cinco significados principales:

(1) To cheer, salute, and welcome.

The crowd hailed the heroes as they accepted their awards. ✔️
Let others hail the rising sun. I bow to that whose course is run. (Actor David Garrick) ✔️

(2) To call or attract attention.

When I’m a brunette, it’s four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere. (Actress Sally Phillips) ✔️
Their best option was to hail a passing ship on the VHF radio. ✔️

(3) To come from. “To hail from” is a phrasal verb meaning to originate from somewhere.

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. (Kimberly Quinn) ✔️
Nearly everyone here hails from the South. ✔️

(4) To pour down.

Bullets hailed down on the enemy as they advanced. ✔️
The court’s decision was met with a hail of criticism. ✔️
(Here, “hail” is used figuratively.)

(5) A shower of frozen rain.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. (French painter Edouard Manet) ✔️
(Here, “hail” is being used as a noun.)
It hailed the night we slept in the tent. ✔️
(Here, “hail” is being used as a verb.)

Hale

El adjetivo “hale” se usa para describir a una persona mayor que conserva las cualidades físicas de la juventud. (En otras palabras, están libres de defectos, enfermedades o dolencias). Ejemplos:

My grandfather is hale and hearty. He walks for 4 miles almost every day. ✔️
My 82-year-old aunt is still hale and healthy. ✔️