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There’s big difference between a ‘frozen dessert’ and a ‘frozen desert’: one is a delicious...
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In academic writing, we often contrast or compare ideas. There are lots of handy words...
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The verbs ‘proscribe’ and ‘prescribe’ are similar in spelling and pronunciation, but they are also...
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We lunge at you with my sword while shouting ‘En garde!’ and we commence a...
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The words ‘imply’ and ‘infer’ are basically opposite terms related to speaking and listening: a...
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As well as proving a popular song title (see Billie Holiday, De La Soul and...
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Word choice can be tricky, especially if English is not your first language. However, even...
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The English language’s annoying habit of persistent homophony – having multiple words which are pronounced...
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In academic writing we often use words which we might not know from daily life....
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Although ‘exhort’ and ‘extort’ differ in meaning, it’s still easy to get these terms mixed...
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It was already easy to mix up the similarly-spelled words ‘dependent’ and ‘dependant’. But then...
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Mixing up the words ‘continually’ and ‘continuously’ is something that even native English speakers do....
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