Fair, Fare, Fayre

Is India obsessed with fairness creams? Why is it so? “You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy.” –Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

To be fair, you know the difference between fair and fare, fairly but it is not surprising to discover when they are misused inadvertently, or by relying on the spellchecker. Fare is a noun: the price of a travel ticket, or price to transport goods: cargo, freight.

Fare is the price of passenger has to pay to the transporter who may run a bus service, rail or air. The prices of fares when hiked, or lowered, will make news to the readers and watchers. Most of the passengers in the public transport are fare-payers yet there could be few who want to dodge as a result there will be ticket collectors and ticket checkers.

Fare also refers to a range of food, a variety of food. As a verb, fare implies to literary progress: how did you fare in your post-graduation compared to graduation days? Farewell is a compound word: a noun. Farewell means taking leave from someone, or something; departure.

Parents give importance to farewell kiss to their children, so are the couple. Farewell means goodbye, saying adieu.
Farewell moment is a dense emotional moment. “Fight or die. That’s what people do. They don’t marry.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Once class is revealed to a person when he or she travels: there are different types of fares in air travel: business class, first class, executive class. So is the case in trains. Farewell speeches are usually laced with anecdotes intending to arouse audience’s attention.

Fair has many meanings and functions as an adjective, adverb and noun, and forms many compound words: fair game, fairground, fair-minded, fair play, fairway, fair-weather friend (unreliable friend). Fair means to be just, equitable, treating others without prejudice, treating others without a jaundiced mind, without favouritism, without discrimination; relating to weather, fare implies to the weather that is fine and dry (wind). Other phrases formed of fair are: fair and square, a fair deal, fair’s fair, for fair, in a fair way.