Tag: spelling
Grammar 101: Pour Over and Pore Over
The English language is filled with words and phrases that sound similar (or the same) but have...
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Grammar 101: Quay, Cay, and Key
By now, you’ve surely realized that English is a very strange language filled with numerous...
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Idiomatica: In the Throes of Passion
In the heat of the moment, it’s perfectly understandable that you would default to the most...
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Grammar 101: Beside and Besides
In writing and in speech, we tend to focus on the “big” words for the biggest impact....
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Grammar 101: Second Hand, Second-Hand or Secondhand?
English can be a very tricky language. Even when you look at words that are spelled using the...
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Grammar 101: Let’s and Lets
Punctuation matters. It’s the difference between “let’s eat, grandma!”...
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Grammar 101: Gibe and Jibe Are Not the Same
A couple of years ago, I wrote a Grammar 101 post outlining the difference between jibe and jive....
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Grammar 101: Sound Byte or Sound Bite?
Who has the time to listen to every interview conducted by every podcast or news organization on...
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Grammar 101: Spendthrift or Spenddrift?
Some people might say that I’m cheap. I prefer to say that I’m “strategically...
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Grammar 101: Graft and Graph
By now, you’ve probably recognized that similar-sounding words with totally different...
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Grammar 101: Gate and Gait
The English language is filled with all sorts of words that sound the same but have entirely...
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Grammar 101: Vermin and Varmint
The English language can be tricky enough as it is. Things get even more confusing when you start...
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