The word "heather" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to the flowering plant with small pink, purple, or white flowers, or as a proper noun for a female given name. Example: The heather on the hillside was blooming with vibrant colors.
Three-quarters of the world's heather moorland is found in Britain; the heather flowers purple in August, the bracken shines bronze in the autumn and the moors are dusted white with snow in midwinter.
Water surged past, rising from the ground and criss-crossing beneath the heather before tumbling into a nearby loch.
The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
Osborne didn't set the heather alight, but nor did he intend to.
There are few more dramatic locations in the northern dales than this 200-year-old, castellated shooting lodge set amid purple heather on the moors above Swaledale.
"It was quite sweet, the way Heather said it," she says.
Breakfast is a big old Yorkshire farm fry-up, served with homemade preserves and local honey from the heather-clad moors.
Ecologists calculate England's heather-clad uplands can naturally support at least 300 pairs of hen harriers, but in 2013, no hen harriers bred successfully in England at all.
Heather Millar-Mills' late try at least made a game of it as England denied France the points they needed for a second successive title – the championship instead going to Ireland after their record 73-3 win in Scotland on Sunday – but of more concern is that it was a third defeat of the tournament for a team that bears little resemblance to the World Cup victors last August.
No wonder the British tennis player Heather Watson ruffled matters when she referred to being off her game because of "girl things".
Heather Ridout, of the Australian Industry Group, a business lobby, argues the federal structure is the most glaring cause of policy failures in health and education.After a standing ovation for Mr Rudd, the most rousing applause came for a call to end Australia's constitutional links with the monarchy and make it a republic.
