Archives for the 'Misused Words' Category
- Trouble with “Vigorously” and “Vicariously”
- “Intact” is One Word
- When is a “Mistake” Not a Mistake?
- Aesthetic or Aesthetical?
- Civil Liberties and Civic Duties
- 4 Exasperating Malapropisms
- “Before” and “Ago”
- The Chief Justice’s Prepositional Slip
- Making Sense of “Since”
- The Difference Between “Un-” and “Dis-”
- “A Historic” or “An Historic” Event?
- Compliment vs Complement
- Loan, Lend, Loaned, Lent
- A While vs Awhile
- Inquire vs Enquire
- Passed vs Past
- Let’s Not Eviscerate “Eviscerate”
- Especially vs. Specially
- Funny Images Conjured up by Web Comments
- Let’s Keep Some of the Old Verb Forms
- Used Transitively, “Avail” Is a Reflexive Verb
- Systematic and Systemic
- “Wreck,” “Wreak,” and Other [rek] Words
- Tibetan Situation Getting Sticky
- Robin Hood was Clad in Green
- Any vs. Either
- Wether, Weather, Whether
- Complex and Complicated
- For Want Of A Letter … Bated, Baited
- Sit vs. Set: Sit Down and Let Me Set the Scene
- For Want Of A Letter … Tic, Tick
- Continuous or Continual?
- A Man is Not a Widow
- Averse, Adverse
- Accent And Dialect
- Farther, Further: What’s the Difference?
- Hopefully Speaking
- “Famous” Doesn’t Apply to Murderers or Gangsters
- Will You Assent to the Ascent?
- It’s Not “The Ox-Bow Incidence”
- Persecute, Prosecute
- Malapropisms
- Crucial, Vital, Essential
- Elude vs. Allude vs. Illude
- Are You Sure You Mean “Moot”?
- Fortuitous and Fortunate
- Deprecate, Depreciate
- Prescribe and Proscribe
- Different from, Different to, Different than
- Between and Among
- “Disinterested” Not the Same as “Uninterested”
- Gross Writing Errors Found on the Web
- Percentage and Percentile
- A “Diploma” is not a “Degree”
- Glimpse and Glance: Same or Different?
- People versus Persons
- Titled versus Entitled
- CAUTION: Merging Words
- “Forte” or “Fortë,” “Cache” or “Cachet”?
- Quiet or Quite?
- Is that “-ness” Really Necessary?
- “Fictional” and “Fictitious”
- Less is More When it Comes to “Unique”
- Folks versus People
- Then or Than?
- Less/Fewer; Number/Amount: Still Salvageable
- Where and Whence
- Loose or Lose?
- Accept the Effect
- Whatever Happened to “Arrested”?
- Are We All Together on This?
- The Gentleman Fled on Foot
- Not Nice At All
- Principle, Principal
- The Everyday Blues
- I Hate “Kids”
- The Right Climate
- Accepting Complements
- The Difference Between e.g. and i.e.?
- There, Their, They’re
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