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Beaut vs. Butte
Beaut
/bjuːt/Examples:
That vintage car is an absolute beaut!The sunset over the ocean is a true beaut.Her handmade dress was quite a beaut at the event.
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Butte
Examples:
The butte rose solitary against the vast desert expanse.Hikers found the ascent up the rocky butte challenging yet rewarding.Ancient petroglyphs adorned the base of the isolated butte.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Beaut is pronounced with one syllable, like byoot, while butte is pronounced with one syllable, like byoot.
- A butte is a geographical feature often referred to as a hill or mountain with a flat top, typically found in the American West.
- Beaut is informal and often used in Australian and New Zealand English to describe someone or something that is beautiful or aesthetically pleasing.
- Butte comes from a French word meaning hillock or mound, whereas beaut is a slang shortening of beauty.
- You can remember butte relates to landscape by the u that rises like a hill in the middle of the word.
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