Common Mistakes in Spelling and Word Usage

 

See Washington State University Professor Paul Brians' page for a very comprehensivelist of common errors in English usage.

 

  • accept / except
  • accommodate, accommodation (NOT "accomodate")
  • acquaintance
  • affect / effect
  • aisle / isle
  • among / between
  • amount / number
  • anxious / eager
  • argument (NOT "arguement")
  • bad / badly
  • believe (NOT "beleive")
  • causal / casual
  • chord / cord
  • cite / site / sight
  • complement / compliment
  • compose / consist / comprise
  • conceive (NOT "concieve")
  • conscience / conscious
  • consistency (NOT "consistancy")
  • currently / presently
  • definitely / defiantly
  • definition
  • desert / dessert
  • discreet / discrete
  • disinterested / uninterested
  • do / due / dew
  • e.g. / i.e.
  • each other / one another
  • empirical / imperial
  • everyday / every day
  • existence (NOT "existance")
  • fewer / less
  • imply / infer
  • indispensable (NOT "indispensible")
  • inherent (NOT "inherant")
  • it’s / its
  • judgment (American English -- not "judgement")
  • know / no
  • knowledge
  • like / as
  • loose / lose
  • millennium (NOT "millenium")
  • necessary (NOT "necesary")
  • occurrence (NOT "occurance" or "occurence"))
  • phenomenon (singular), phenomena (plural)
  • philosophy
  • posses / possess
  • principal / principle
  • regretfully / regrettably
  • sole / soul
  • supersede (NOT "supercede")
  • than / then
  • there / they’re / their
  • toward (American English -- not "towards")
  • udder / utter
  • weather / whether
  • who’s / whose
  • your / you’re

 

 

 

 

 


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