Archive for Words Easily Confused
Only one item this time, but it's a remarkably common one: lightning and lightening. I suppose this should really go...
Another entry in an irregular series. past and passed. In the context in which they're often confused, past means "beyond"...
Only one word-pair today: The correct spelling of cell phone uses two Ls, just like a cell of the body....
More words easily confused: rein and reign. I see these confused so often that I've sometimes gotten confused about them...
We've had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form "[person] slunk down...
Warning: grammar rant. Nothing to see; move along. I've seen this at least half a dozen times in stories...