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Do you visit a ‘website’ or a ‘web site’? And should these terms be capitalised?...
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If something is odd, is it ‘weird’ or ‘wierd’? This word is easy to get...
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If you are writing about the armed forces or police, you may need to talk...
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Do dancers need a good sense of ‘rhythm’ or ‘rythm’? This word can be difficult...
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When you put a name tag on something, do you ‘label’ it or ‘lable’ it?...
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Is the proper way to write ‘can’t’ in full ‘cannot’ (one word) or ‘can not’...
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Previously, we did a post on five helpful spelling mnemonics (i.e. memory aids). But we...
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When someone writes about people who live near to one another, you may have seen...
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To draw on the old phrase, is giving better than ‘receiving’ or ‘recieving’? This word...
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If you make a spelling mistake, did you ‘misspell’ or ‘mispell’ the word? Only one...
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Do you have a ‘best friend’ or a ‘best freind’? Spelling this word correctly can...
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‘Vice’ and ‘vise’ are different spellings of a word that has a few meanings, including...
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