Secrets spelled

Spelling is not my forte. It’s not that I can’t spell, it’s rather that I can’t see when I have misspelt something. I read what I meant to write, not what I actually wrote. Sometime this has interesting consequences.

Most recently

, I was alerted by my ally, Spellcheck, to a possible faux pas by use of the word diary. I was puzzled to say the least. I clicked on Explain ...

Review definitions:

• dairy comes from cows
• diary where you keep your secrets about cows

What possible secrets might one keep about cows?
Actually, considering the apocryphal tales about Catherine The Great, lets not go there.