Archives for the ‘Spelling’ Category
- How to Improve Your English Spelling
- Spelling Variations
- The Prevailing Style for Prefixes: No Hyphens
- “They” As a Nonbinary Pronoun
- 25 Confused Homonym Pairs
- 12 Idioms Commonly Seen with Homonymic Spelling Errors
- The Diversity of Over- and Under- Compounds
- Nominalization and Conversion
- The Complexity of Compounds
- Noise Canceling or Noise-Canceling?
- Formal Fused Words
- Words Ending in “-ly” Aren’t Always Adverbs
- Mankind vs. Humankind
- Email vs. E-mail
- Hyphenation Rules for 35 Prefixes (and 1 Suffix)
- The Suffix -strophe
- What’s the Relationship Between “Ship” and “-ship”?
- The Prefix Co-
- “Alt” as an Alternative to “Alternative”
- Jump-Starts and Start-Ups
- The 411 on Numeronyms
- Latin Plural Endings
- Could, Should, and Would
- Demagoguery and How to Pronounce It
- Selfie and Other Words Ending with -ie
- Verbing Family Members
- Gollum, Epenthesis, and Haplology
- Voiced vs. Unvoiced Pronunciation
- How To Pronounce Swath and Swathe
- The English Lexicon Will Always Be Back-Formated
- Bingeing or Binging?
- Wer and Wyf, Man and Woman
- Due Diligence and Eavesdropping
- A New Use For The Prefix Cis-
- Water Ski, Water-ski, or Waterski?
- Potpourri of Misspellings
- How To Spell Renown
- Idem and Ibid
- How To Pronounce Divisive
- 10 Deliberately Misspelled Words
- Till vs. Until
- Don’t They Have Spell Check?
- Spelling and Pronunciation
- How to Pronounce Mobile
- Pronouncing Dour and Other OU Words
- Marshmallow and Other Common Spelling Traps
- Calls To Action
- Stadia and Aquaria
- How to Spell Pendulum
- Spelling and Word Origin
- The Lapsus Calami of Principle for Principal
- To Err is Human
- A Historic vs. An Historic
- Name Change for ISIS
- A Useful Reminder About ‘An’
- Honorary vs. Honourary
- Kn- Words in English
- Wood vs. Wooden
- Final U in English Words
- Pronunciation of -ise in Verbs and Nouns
- Foreign Spelling Conventions in English
- I Before E, Except After C
- The Two Sounds of G
- The Phonogram WH
- The Soft Sound of C
- Metathesis
- Q in English Words
- Waxing Judgmental about Judgement
- The R in Colonel
- Verb Endings in -ed and -t
- Words Spelled with AE
- L Words in English
- Adverbs and Hyphens
- Shone vs. Shined, Lit vs. Lighted
- Words Ending in -ance and -ence
- Abstract Nouns from Adjectives
- Quote vs. Quotation, Invite vs. Invitation
- Verbs with Thou and Thee
- Writing and Pronunciation
- News and Houses
- Honor vs. Honour
- Answers to Questions About Hyphens
- Answers to Questions About Suffixes
- The Volatile Nature of It’s
- The Surfeit of Weird Exceptions to the I-Before-E Rule
- Use Truncated Words with Caution
- 7 Poor Parking Signs
- Capitonyms Are Separate Cases
- “Size” Matters
- 5 Words That End in the Excrescent “-st”
- How Verbs Become Adjectives
- Why One Suffix Is More Common Than Another
- Suffixes That Denote Relation or Resemblance
- The Logic Behind “-logic” and “-logical”
- 10 Shelf-Sign Errors
- Can We Cooperate About “Co-”?
- Is That Even a Word?
- The Basics of Back-Formation
- 7 Types of Misspellings
- 7 Vehicular Violations of Proper English
- 8 Eroding Inflectional Endings
- Different Suffixes for Different Contexts
- 10 Sets of Doublet Nouns
- 7 Movie-Title Mistakes
- The Dictionary Defeats Dogma
- 8 Suffixes for Collateral Adjectives
- 7 Sets of Doublet and Triplet Verbs
- 20 Words with More Than One Spelling
- 5 School Signs That Earn an F
- 40 Irregular Verbs That Can End in “-t”
- 15 “Dis-” Words and Their Relations
- A Quiz on Treatment of 75 Compound Words
- 12 Evocative Words That Include “Ae”
- 7 Negative Prefixes
- 15 Foreign Words and Phrases People Spell Incorrectly
- 20 Clipped Forms and Their Place (If Any) in Formal Writing
- 7 Subjects of Academic Terminology
- How to Treat Names of Groups and Organizations
- How Do You Pronounce “Often”?
- How Spelling Diverges Between American and British English
- Affect Is (Usually) a Verb
- When to Capitalize Animal and Plant Names
- Compound Words Don’t Always Compare
- 7 Common Homonymic Spelling Errors
- Spelling Isn’t Magic
- The Spellings of “Shun”
- English words Don’t (usually) End with “u”
- “Virtue” is spelled “Virtue”
- In the Last Throes
- How to spell “in lieu of”
- Where to Put the Stress in “irrevocable”?
- Pronouncing Words That End in -lm
- Take Care with “Album”
- One Sheep, Two Sheep, One Fish, Two Fish . . .
- A Lesson in Spelling “Definite”
- Peers and Piers
- The Present Participle of Verbs Ending in -ie
- Please Let Your Interest Be “Piqued”
- Dandelions and Medallions
- “Icicle,” Another Good Word Down the Tubes
- 38 Letters of the Alphabet
- When to use “an”
- No Hyphen in “Ramshackled”
- “Urk” is not a standard spelling
- The Past of “Pay” is “Paid”
- Do We Really Need “Verbiage” and “Verbage”?
- Running Amok or Running Amuck?
- The Negative Prefix il-
- Verbs in -ize and -ise
- Words Often Misspelled Because of Double Letters
- CamelCase
- Strolling Down the [AV]
- Ebook, eBook, ebook or e-book?
- When Shortening “Synchronize,” Best Leave Off the “h”
- Ah, Those -ah words in English!
- Nothing to do with Raspberries, Exactly
- How Do You Pronounce “Mozart”?
- A Night in the MVSEVM
- The Four Sounds of the Spelling OU
- Could it Be, Just Possibly, All a Ruse?
- Judgement or Judgment?
- Worshiping and Kidnapping
- One “L” or Two?
- Words Ending in -gue
- Cannot or Can Not?
- Practice or Practise?
- Chocolate Covered or Chocolate-Covered?
- Pronouncing Words that Begin with WH
- When -OT is [ət]
- Pass the Chile
- The Plural of “Calf” is “Calves,” or is it?
- 50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid
- English Words Spelled with 3-letter /ī/
- To “B” or Not to “B”
- Is “Religulous” A Word?
- Program vs. Programme
- The Silent K
- Alas, Poor Heroine
- Site, Sight, and the Spell Check Syndrome
- Poll: Should We Write email or e-mail?
- Celtic: /sel tik/ or /kel tik/?
- Tentative and Tenterhooks
- The Eight Spellings of Long O
- Are You Able?
- January 1 Doesn’t Need an “st”
- Breach vs. Breech
- Spelling Reform and the Writer
- Case of the Missing “i”s: foliage, verbiage, miniature
- The Six Spellings of “Long E”
- In Quest of a Standard American Pronunciation
- Learn to Spell by Phonograms, not Letters
- Seen in the Classifieds
- Caesar Sat on the Dais
- How Do I Become a Better Speller?
- Words with the Suffixes “-ance” and “-ence”
- Stationery, Cemetery, and Shepherd
- Five Spelling Rules for “Silent Final E”
- Misspelled Numbers, Months, and Days
- The Truth About “It’s”
- English Spelling is Not Total Chaos
- The Blogger Spelling Test
- Careful with Words Used as Noun and Verb
- Is “alright” all right?
- Advertising May Be Harmful to Your Spelling
- Sending an E-mail Without Proofreading is Like Shooting a Gun Without Aiming
- Spell Check Isn’t Foolproof!