Confusing Words

[pegkerr]

From refdesk.com, their choice for site of the day: confusingwords.com:

Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.

Click the link above to read more.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Any such tool that does not address the difference between "perspicacity" and "perspicuity" is without merit.

K.

[irielle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the reference! I'm at the point where I'm surprised if someone actually uses the word lose when they mean lose. Most people seem to type loose instead and they do it consistently so I can't pretend it's simply a typo.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

I just wish people wouldn't MAKE UP words, such as mis-CHEE-vee-uss. A radio announcer just said this. How the heck do you make a living speaking on the radio when you think that's a word? "Mischievous" is pronounced MISS-chi-vuss. Three syllables. One "i". Argh.