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Today vs Tody - What's the difference?

today | tody |

As nouns the difference between today and tody

is that today is a current day or date while tody is any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds.

As an adverb today

is on the current day or date.

today

English

Alternative forms

* to-day (archaic)

Adverb

(-)
  • On the current day or date.
  • In the current era; nowadays.
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    • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers Engineers of a different kind] , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A current day or date.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
    • , title= , passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today  / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}

    Synonyms

    * current day * this day

    Usage notes

    Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are (these days) and (nowadays).

    See also

    * nowadays * hodiernal * yesterday * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian

    Anagrams

    * toady English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs English words prefixed with to- 1000 English basic words

    tody

    English

    Noun

    (todies) (wikipedia tody)
  • Any of the genus Todus of small insectivorous Caribbean birds.
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