Windy and windy.... help me someone.... please.

Question

Is there a difference between the spelling of 'windy weather' and 'a windy road'?

Is one of them spelled wrong or something?

Help please.

xo

Answer 1

Same spelling, different pronunciation. Windy weather = short i as in "win", windy road = long i as in "wine".

Edit: and no, I didn't even think about the fact that the second "windy" is not a word. Dammit, it should be! And so should "dammit".

Answer 2

Windy in the sense of the describing the road as being full of bends is wrong - the word doesn't exist, except in slang. The word is "winding". Windy is an ajective as in "a windy day". To wind, is a verb so if you want to use it as an ajective you have to say "winding". It's a long and winding road!

Just to confuse you further there is also a noun: "wind" which means a turn, coil or twist"

The difference between wind (as in the weather) and wind (as in turn, coil or twist is down to the vowel sounds.

Wind (weather) = wind (a short i as in winter)

Wind (to turn) = waynd (like the vowel sound in wine)