College vs Collage- Misused and Confused Words

College vs Collage

                                                                                                                                                                  

Many times you misplace one or more than one letter in a word,Such as- dessert and desert, cite and site, breath and breathe, without knowing that misplacing a letter can change the whole meaning of a word. Misplacing a letter can change whole meaning of a word and a word can change the whole meaning of a sentence. So have a look on such a word i.e.- college and collage.

College (N) -
Meaning:-

• a place where you can study for higher or more specialist qualifications after you finish high school
• an organized group of professional people with special interest, duties or powers

eg. the Royal College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology

• a place where students go to study or to receive after they have left school

Collage (N) -
Meaning:-

• the art of making a picture by sticking pieces of coloured paper, cloth, or photographs onto a surface
• a collection of things, which may be similar or different

Collage and College - Confusion arises from a and e after ll.

Origin-

Word Collage comes from Old French word "coller" means " to glue" and Coller comes from Greek word "kolla" means "glue."
Word College comes from Latin word "collegium" means "partnership" as "col" means "together with" + legare means "depute"

How to remember spelling according to its usages-

College is for student, here word student carries "e" that is used in word college after ll (double l). 

Collage for pasting some coloured paper, here letter "a" from word paste same as in word collage after ll 
(double l).

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