Stationary or Stationery?!

Stationary or Stationery?!

You may notice that we use both ‘stationary’ and ‘stationery’ across the site. As most people know, the correct usage is ‘stationery’ but there are a lot of people who misspell the word when using search engines and enter ‘stationary’. We provide both spellings across the site to cater for those people who enter the incorrect version in to search engines.

So, just to clarify, here are the full and correct definitions for each spelling from Merriam Webster Dictionary...

Stationery

Main Entry: sta·tio·nery
Pronunciation: ‘stA-sh&-”ner-E
Function: noun
Etymology: stationer
Date: circa 1688
1 : materials (as paper, pens, and ink) for writing or typing
2 : letter paper usually accompanied with matching envelopes.

Stationary

Main Entry: sta·tion·ary
Pronunciation: ‘stA-sh&-”ner-E
Function: adjective
Date: 1626
1 : fixed in a station , course, or mode : IMMOBILE
2 : unchanging in condition.