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calendar  –  calender   –  colander

[‘Calendar’ and ‘calender’ have the same pronunciation; ‘colander’ has a slightly different first vowel sound.]

A printing error?  …Could be!

The following paragraph shows one of the silly mistakes found even in such standard books as “TOEFL – How To Prepare For The Test Of English As A Foreign Language (page-25) by Roger B. Goodman and William Ince, published by Mc Graw-HillBook Co., Singapore and New Delhi, copyright (1981):

“… He was teacher of scientific subjects and was … astrology and metaphysics, for his prodigious feats of memory, and … philosophy.  His reform of the Persian calender achieved extraordinary …”. [In this example, the word 'calendar' should have been used.]

“Calendar” is ‘a register which shows the names and dates of days, weeks and months of a year’, and in a more general sense, ‘a schedule’,

a calendar (showing dates and days)

{There are three main types calendars: Gregorian/English calendar, Jewish calendar and Muslim/Islamic calendar.  The ‘Gregorian calendar’ is the one used by almost all the people in the world; the ‘Jewish calendar’ is followed by Jews for religious purposes and the ‘Muslim/Islamic calendar’ is followed by Muslims for their religious purposes.  In addition, calendars have been formatted in two different ways: one is basing on the movements of the sun — solar calendar, and the other is basing on the movements of the moon — lunar calendar.}

e.g.

Sundays and public holidays are not printed in red in this calendar.

“Calender” is ‘a rolling machine used in glazing paper or in pressing or smoothing cloth’ {old-fashioned or out- dated}

a calender (a machine with rollers)

e.g.

We need a new calender in our laundry.

“Colander” is ‘a strainer (a simple metal or plastic bowl with a lot of small holes in it) used to separate liquid from solid in preparing food items’,

a colander (bowl with small holes in its walls and bottom)

e.g.

Some people use a colander to strain the water off while cooking rice.

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