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I'm trying to post most of my word-related entries at Neology these days, so new entries in the Words easily... (More...)

26 December 2007, 6:48 PM | Comments (1)

Been a while since I've done one of these. For previous installments, see my Words easily confused category. (Wrote most... (More...)

8 August 2006, 12:49 AM | Comments (6)

And since I'm apparently being Writing Curmudgeon Guy lately, I think it's time for another installment of "words easily confused."... (More...)

11 September 2005, 3:17 PM | Comments (21)

Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the... (More...)

24 April 2005, 1:22 PM | Comments (9)

Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the... (More...)

3 October 2004, 10:14 AM | Comments (12)

I know it's only been a few weeks since the last list, but shortly after I posted the last one... (More...)

29 July 2004, 8:49 AM | Comments (7)

I've been saving these up 'til there were enough of them to post: As Heather noted in a comment to... (More...)

10 July 2004, 7:52 PM | Comments (11)

I've seen two different journalers use the term potboiler correctly this morning, but I've also talked with a lot of... (More...)

24 January 2004, 10:10 AM | Comments (5)

Half a dozen times in the last week, I've seen a reference to someone racking their brains. Each time, I've... (More...)

17 October 2003, 3:15 PM | Comments (3)

And then there are the words that I think are different but turn out to be acceptable variants of each... (More...)

13 August 2003, 9:40 PM | Comments (12)

We get an awful lot of stories in which fluorescent is misspelled florescent. Presumably partly because it's another one of... (More...)

11 August 2003, 10:18 PM | Comments (7)

Another entry in an irregular series. skirl and swirl. Possibly because it sounds a little like swirl and a little... (More...)

4 July 2003, 3:15 PM | Comments (2)

Only one item this time, but it's a remarkably common one: lightning and lightening. I suppose this should really go... (More...)

16 March 2003, 1:26 PM | Comments (0)

Another entry in an irregular series. past and passed. In the context in which they're often confused, past means "beyond"... (More...)

8 February 2003, 10:30 AM | Comments (2)

Only one word-pair today: The correct spelling of cell phone uses two Ls, just like a cell of the body.... (More...)

2 December 2002, 11:56 AM | Comments (0)

More words easily confused: rein and reign. I see these confused so often that I've sometimes gotten confused about them... (More...)

2 November 2002, 3:52 PM | Comments (0)

We've had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form "[person] slunk down... (More...)

19 September 2002, 2:44 PM | Comments (0)

Warning: grammar rant. Nothing to see; move along.   I've seen this at least half a dozen times in stories... (More...)

25 November 2001, 3:37 PM