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●100’s / hundreds
3
●360 degrees
A
●A.D.
●a/an
●abject
●able to
●absorbtion
●abstruse / obtuse
●academia
●acapella, a capella
●accede / exceed
●accent marks
●accept / except
●accessory
●accidently
●accurate / precise
●acronyms and apostrophes
●acrossed
●actionable / doable
●actual fact / actually
●ad / add
●ad nauseum
●adapt / adopt
●added bonus
●addicting
●administer / minister
●administrate
●admission / admittance
●adopted / adoptive
●adultry
●advance / advanced
●adverse / averse
●advice / advise
●adviser / advisor
●advocate for
●aesthetic / ascetic
●affect / effect
●affluence / effluence
●Afghan / Afghani
●African American
●afterall
●afterwards / afterwords
●agnostic / atheist
●agreeance / agreement
●ahold / hold
●aid / aide
●ain’t
●aisle / isle
●ala
●all
●all and all
●all be it
●all for not
●all goes well / augurs well
●all of the sudden
●all ready / already
●all the farther
●alleged / allegedly
●alliterate / illiterate
●alls
●allude / illude
●allude / refer
●allusion / illusion
●allusive / elusive / illusive
●almost
●along the same vein
●alot
●aloud / allowed
●alright
●altar / alter
●alterior / ulterior
●alternate / alternative
●altho, tho
●altogether / all together
●alumnus / alumni
●AM / PM
●amature
●ambiguous / ambivalent
●ambivalent / indifferent
●American
●amongst / among
●amoral / immoral
●amount / number
●ampitheater / amphitheater
●an / and
●an historic
●analogous
●ancestor
●and also
●and / or
●anecdote / antidote
●angel / angle
●another words
●anteclimax
●antihero
●anxious / eager
●any more
●Any other number of
●any time
●anyone / any one
●anyways
●anywhere
●anywheres
●apart / a part
●apiece / a piece
●apostrophes
●appauled
●appose / oppose
●appraise / apprise
●apropos / appropriate
●Arab / Arabic / Arabian
●architected
●around / about
●arrant / errant
●arthuritis
●artic
●artisanal / artesian
●as
●as best as
●as far as
●as follow
●as less as possible
●as of yet
●as per
●as such
●as time progressed
●ascared
●ascent / assent
●ascribe / subscribe
●ashamed / a shame
●asocial
●aspect / respect
●assess
●assure / ensure / insure
●asterick
●astrology / astronomy
●aswell
●at all
●atheist
●athlete
●ATM machine
●attain / obtain
●attribute / contribute
●auger / augur
●aural / oral
●autobiography / biography
●avaidable
●avenge / revenge
●avocation / vocation
●away / a way
●awe, shucks
●ax
●axel / axle
B
●back / forward / up in time
●backseat / back seat
●backslash / slash
●backup / back up
●backward / backwards
●backyard / back yard
●bad
●bail / bale
●bailout / bail out
●baises
●baited breath
●baldfaced, boldfaced
●ball, bawl
●barb wire
●barbecue
●bare / bear
●barter / haggle
●base / bass
●based around
●basicly
●bazaar / bizarre
●beat / bead
●beaurocracy
●beckon call
●began / begun
●begs belief
●begs the question
●behaviors
●being that
●belief / believe
●belief toward
●below table
●bemuse
●benefactor / beneficiaries
●beside / besides
●better
●between
●between you and I
●beyond the pail
●bias / biased
●Bible
●bicep
●bit
●biweekly
●blatant
●blindsighted
●block / bloc
●blog
●blonde / blond
●blunt / brunt
●boarders / borders
●boast your confidence / bolster your confidence
●bologna / baloney
●bon a petite
●bonafied
●bonds / bounds
●boost in the arm
●bored of
●born / borne
●born out of
●borrow / loan
●borrow off
●both
●both / each
●bought / brought
●boughten
●bounce
●bourgeois
●bow
●brainchild
●brake / break
●brand names
●brang
●breach / breech
●breakup / break up
●breath / breathe
●breeches
●bring / take
●Britain / Briton
●broach / brooch
●broke
●brunt / butt
●brussel sprout
●build off of
●bullion / bouillon
●bully / pulpit
●bulrush / bum’s rush
●buoyant
●but . . . however
●butt
●buttload
●buttox
●by/ ‘bye / buy
●by far and away
C
●cacao / cocoa
●cache / cachet
●caddy-corner
●call the question
●callous
●calm, cool, and collective
●Calvary / cavalry
●can goods
●can’t . . . too
●Canadian geese
●cannot / can not
●canon / cannon
●canvas / canvass
●capeesh
●capital / capitol
●caramel / carmel
●carat / caret / carrot / karat
●careen / career
●caring
●carousal / carousel
●catch-22
●catched
●Caucasian
●CD-ROM disk
●ceasar
●cease the day
●celibate / chaste
●celtic
●cement / concrete
●censor / censure / sensor / censer
●center around
●center of attraction
●cents
●ceremonial / ceremonious
●chai tea
●chaise longue
●chalk-full
●Champaign / Champagne
●chauvinist
●Check
●chemicals
●Chicano / Latino/ Hispanic
●chock it up
●choose / chose
●chrispy
●chuck / chunk
●Church
●“Churchill” on Prepositions
●chute / shoot
●cite / site / sight
●clamor / clamber
●classic / classical
●cleanup
●clench / clinch
●cliché / clichéd
●click / clique
●climactic / climatic
●close / clothes
●close proximity
●closed-minded
●coarse / course
●coat strings
●coffee clatch
●coiffeur
●cold slaw
●coliseum
●collaborate / corroborate
●collage / college
●collective plural
●Colombia / Columbia
●colons / semicolons
●Colorado
●coma / comma
●come with
●commas
●Commonly Made Suggestions
●company names with apostrophes
●compare and contrast
●compare to
●complement / compliment
●complementary / complimentary
●comprised of
●concensus
●concerning
●concerted effort
●confident / confidant / confidante
●conflicted
●confusionism
●congradulations
●connote / denote
●conscience, conscious, consciousness
●conservativism
●contaminates
●continual / continuous
●contrary / contrast
●contrasts / contrast with
●conversate
●copywrite
●core / corps / corpse
●coronate
●costumer
●could care less
●could give a damn
●could of, should of, would of
●council / counsel / consul
●couple
●cowered / coward
●cowtow
●crackerjacks
●crafts
●crape / crepe
●credible
●creeped / crept
●crescendo / climax
●crevice / crevasse
●crick / creek
●criteria / criterion
●criticism
●critique
●crochet / crotchet / crochety
●croissant
●crowbar / wrecking bar
●crucifiction / crucifixion
●crucifix / cross
●cue / queue
●cup of tea
●cursing through veins
●currant / current
●curve your appetite
●cut and dry
●cut and paste
D
●dairy / diary
●damp squid
●damped / dampened
●dangling and misplaced modifiers
●daring-do
●data / datum
●dateline / deadline
●day in age
●daylight savings time
●de rigueur
●deal
●dealed
●death nail
●debrief
●decent / descent / dissent
●deceptively
●decimate
●deep-seeded
●defence / defense
●definate
●deformation / defamation
●defuse / diffuse
●degrade / denigrate / downgrade
●degree titles
●deja vu
●democrat / democratic
●demure / demur
●denied of
●depends
●depravation / deprivation
●depreciate / deprecate
●derisory / derisive
●desert / dessert
●desirable / desirous
●deviant / deviate
●device / devise
●devote / devout
●dew / do / due
●dialogue
●dieties
●differ / vary
●different
●differently abled, physically challenged
●digestive track
●dike / dyke
●dilemma
●dire straights
●directions
●disasterous
●disburse / disperse
●disc / disk
●disconcerning
●discreet / discrete
●discretion is the better part of valor
●discussed / disgust
●disease names
●disembark the vessel
●disgression
●disinterested / uninterested
●dispose
●disremember
●disrespect
●dissemble / disassemble
●divide by half
●do respect
●doctorial
●doesn’t supposed to
●dogma, doctrine
●dolly / handcart
●dominate / dominant
●done
●don’t / doesn’t
●donut
●do’s and don’ts
●double negatives
●double possesive
●doubt
●doubtlessly
●douse / dowse
●dove
●downfall / drawback
●download / upload
●dozed / dosed
●dozen of
●drank / drunk
●drastic
●dredge / drudge / trudge
●dribble
●drier
●drips and drabs
●drive / disk
●drug
●dual / duel
●duck tape
●due to the fact that
●duly / dully
●dyeing / dying
E
●e.g. / i.e.
●each
●early adapter
●earmarks
●earth, moon
●easedrop
●ecology / environment
●economic / economical
●ecstatic
●ect.
●-ed / -t
●edge on
●eek / eke
●efforting
●ei / ie
●either are / either is
●either / or, neither / nor
●electrocute / shock
●elegy / eulogy
●elicit / illicit
●ellipses
●email
●embaress
●emergent / emergency
●emigrate / immigrate
●eminent / imminent / immanent
●empathy / sympathy
●emphasize on
●emulate / imitate
●en suite
●enamored by
●end result
●endemic / epidemic
●engine / motor
●English / British
●enjoy to
●enormity / enormousness
●enquire / inquire
●enthuse
●entomology / etymology
●envelop / envelope
●envious / jealous
●environment
●epic / epoch
●epicenter
●epigram / epigraph / epithet
●epitomy
●eponymous
●equally as
●equivocate / equate
●-er / -est
●error / err
●-es
●espouse / expound / expand
●et al.
●-eth
●ethics / morals / morale
●ethnic
●ever so often
●every
●every since
●Everyday
●everyone / every one
●everytime
●evidence to
●evoke / invoke
●exact same
●exalt / exult
●exasperate / exacerbate
●excape
●exception proves the rule
●exceptional / exceptionable
●excrable
●execute on
●exhileration
●exited / excited
●exorcise / excercise
●expatriot
●expecially
●expensive, cheap
●explicitly / implicitly
●exponential growth
●expressed / express
●expresses that
●expresso
●extend / extent
●extended, extensive
●extract revenge
●exulted / exalted
F
●factoid
●fair/ fare
●faithful / fateful
●far be it for me
●fastly
●fatal / fateful
●farther / further
●faun / fawn
●faze / phase
●fearful / fearsome
●feburary
●Federal (capitalization)
●feelings for / feelings about
●feint / faint
●fellow classmate
●female / woman
●fiance / fiancee
●film
●finalize
●fine toothcomb / fine-tooth comb
●firey
●first annual
●first floor / ground floor
●first name / family
●firstable
●fiscal / physical
●fit the bill / fill the bill
●fits to a tee
●fittest
●fixing
●flair / flare
●flak / flack
●flaunt / flout
●flesh out / flush out
●floe / flow
●floppy disk / hard disk
●flounder / founder
●fluke
●flusterated
●flys
●focus around
●followup
●font / typeface
●foot / feet
●footnotes / endnotes
●for
●for all intensive purposes
●for / fore / four
●for free
●for goodness’ sakes
●for one
●for sale / on sale
●for sell
●for sure / sure
●forbidding / foreboding / formidable
●forceful / forcible / forced
●forego / forgo
●forever
●formally / formerly
●forsee
●fortuitous / fortunate
●foul / fowl
●fourty
●fowl swoop
●framework / groundwork
●Frankenstein
●frankly
●french dip with au jus
●freshman / freshmen
●from the beginning of time
●from . . . to
●full proof
●fully well
●-fuls / -ful
●fulsome
●functionality
●furl / furrow
●fushia
G
●g / q
●gaff
●gamut / gauntlet
●gander / dander
●gardener snake
●garnish / garner
●gauge
●gaurd
●gender
●genuine
●gerunds & pronouns
●get me
●Ghandi
●gibe / jibe / jive
●gift / give
●gig
●gild
●goal / gaol
●goal / objective
●god
●goes
●going forward
●gone / went
●gonna
●good-by / good-bye / goodby / goodbye
●good / well
●got / gotten
●got to
●government
●gp practice
●graduate
●graffiti
●grammer
●grasping for straws
●gratis /gratuitous
●gray / grey
●greatful
●grievous
●grill cheese
●grill / grille
●grinds / grounds
●grisly / grizzly
●ground zero
●group (plural vs. singular)
●grow
●guess who?
●gull / gall
●gut-wrenching / heart-rending
●gyp / cheat
H
●had ought
●hadn’t have
●hail / hale
●hairbrained
●hand and hand
●handicap / disability
●hangar / hanger
●hanged / hung
●hanging indent
●Hanukkah
●happy belated birthday
●hardly
●hardly never
●hardy / hearty
●hark / hearken
●hayday
●he don’t
●heading
●heal / heel
●hear / here
●hearing-impaired
●heavily / strongly
●heighth
●help the problem
●hence why
●herbs / spices
●here’s / here are
●heroin / heroine
●hew cry
●highbred / hybrid
●highly looked on
●him, her / he, she
●Hindi / Hindu
●hippie / hippy
●his and her’s
●hisself
●historic / historical
●hit and miss
●HIV virus
●hoard / horde
●hock / hawk
●hoi polloi
●hold your peace / say your piece
●hole / whole
●holocaust
●home page
●homophobic
●hone in
●hors d’ oeuvres
●how to
●humanism / humanist
●humanity
●humus / hummus
●hundreds / nineteenth
●hyperdermic
●hyphenation
●hyphens & dashes
●hypocritical
●hypocritical
●hysterical / hilarious
I
●I / 1
●i / me / myself
●-ic
●ice tea
●idea / ideal
●idle / idol
●if I were
●if not
●if / whether
●ignorant
●Illinois
●immaculate conception / virgin birth
●impact
●impactful
●impassible / impassable
●impeach
●impertinent / irrelevant
●impertinent / irrelevant
●imply / infer
●infact
●in lieu of / in light of
●in mass
●in memorial
●in regards to
●in route
●in shambles / a shambles
●in spite of / despite
●in store
●in tact
●in terms of
●in the fact that
●in the mist
●incase
●incent
●incidence / incidents / instances
●incidently / incidentally
●includes
●incredible
●incredulous / incredible
●indepth
●Indian / Native American
●indite / indict
●individual
●infamous / notorious
●infinite
●inflammable
●influencial / influential
●-ing
●inkpen
●input
●insight / incite
●install / instill
●instances / instants
●insundry
●intend on
●intense / intensive
●intensifiers
●intercession
●interesting
●interface
●intergrate
●interment / internment
●intermural / intramural / extramural
●Internet / intranet
●interpretate
●into / in to
●intricate / integral
●intrigue
●invested interest
●invite / invitation
●Iraq
●ironically / coincidentally
●irregardless
●is, is
●Islams
●isn’t it / innit
●Israeli / Israelite
●Isreal
●issues
●itch
●its / it’s
J
●jack / plug
●jam / jamb
●jerry-built / jury-rigged
●Jew
●Jew / Hebrew
●jewelry
●job titles
●John Henry / John Hancock
●John Hopkins
●joint possessives
●judgement
●junta
●just assume
●just / jest
●just so happens
●jutebox
K
●key
●kick-start
●killed after
●kindergarden
●kindly
●knots per hour
●koala bear
L
●l / ll
●laissez-faire
●lama / llama
●land lover
●languish / luxuriate
●large
●late / former
●later / latter
●laundry mat
●laxadaisical / lackadaisical
●lay / lie
●layed / laid
●LCD display
●leach / leech
●lead / led
●least / lest
●leave
●legend
●lense
●lentil / lintel
●less painless
●lessen / lesson
●let alone
●let’s / lets
●liable / libel
●liaise
●libary
●licence / license
●light-year
●lighted / lit
●lightening / lightning
●like
●like for
●likeliness / likeness
●likker / liquor
●lion’s share
●lip-sing
●listserv / list
●“lite” spelling
●literally
●literature
●little own
●little to none
●lived
●loath / loathe
●login
●logon
●lol
●long story short
●lookit
●lose / loose
●loser / looser
●lot, plenty, load (number)
●lozenger
●lustful / lusty
●luxuriant / luxurious
●-ly adjectives
M
●MAC / Mac
●macabre
●maddening crowd
●magic bullet / silver bullet
●majority are / majority is
●majorly
●make due
●make pretend
●mantle / mantel
●manufacture / manufacturer
●marinate on
●marital / martial
●marshall
●marshmellow
●mash potatoes
●mass
●masseuse
●material / materiel
●may / might
●maybe / may be
●me either
●mean for
●mean / median
●meantime / meanwhile
●medal / metal / meddle
●media
●Medieval Ages
●mediocre
●medium / median
●meet up
●memorium
●meteor / meterorite / meteoroid
●methodology
●mfr. / mfg.
●mic
●middleaged
●midrift
●might has well
●might could
●might ought
●militate / mitigate
●mind of information
●miner / minor
●miniscule
●minority
●minuet / minute
●minus
●minus well
●mischievious
●mislead / misled
●misnomer
●mispell
●misplaced stress
●mixed-up media
●molten / melted
●money is no option
●Mongoloid
●mono e mono
●moral / morale
●morays
●more importantly
●more / most
●moreso
●most always
●motherload
●motion / move
●Mount Fujiyama
●much differently
●muchly
●mucus / mucous
●multipart names
●multiply by double
●mumble jumbo, mumbo jumbo
●music / singing
●must of
●mute point
●myriad of
N
●n’
●name, pronoun
●nauseated / nauseous
●naval / navel
●near
●neck in neck
●needs -ed / -ing
●neice
●Nevada
●nevermind
●new lease of life
●next store
●next, this
●nicety / niceness
●nickle
●nieve
●niggard
●ninty
●nip it in the butt
●no sooner when
●no such thing
●Nobel Prize
●Non-Errors
●none
●nonplussed
●noone
●not
●not all
●not all that
●not hardly
●notate / note
●nothing
●notorious
●now and days
●nowheres
●nuclear
●number of verb
●numbers
●numerous of
●nuptual
O
●O / zero
●object d’art
●obsolescent / obsolete
●octopi
●odd
●oeuvre
●of
●of __’s
●ofcourse
●offense / offence
●offline
●oft chance / off chance
●often
●oggle
●oh / o
●OK
●Old English
●old fashion
●old-timer’s disease
●old wise tale
●on accident
●on the contraire
●on the lamb
●on the same token / by the same token
●on tomorrow
●once and a while
●once / ones
●one-dimensional
●one in the same
●one of the only
●one of the (singular)
●ones / one’s
●ongoingly
●online / on line
●only
●onto / on to
●op-ed
●open / unlocked / unlatched
●opportunist
●oppose to
●oral / verbal
●orders of magnitude
●ordinance / ordnance
●Oregon
●organic
●oriental
●orientate
●ostensively
●our
●outcast / outcaste
●over and out
●over-exaggerated
●oversee / overlook
●overtake / take over
●owness
P
●page / site
●pair (number)
●pair / pare / pear
●palate / palette / pallet
●par excellance
●parallel
●parallelism in a series
●parallelled / paralleled
●paralyzation
●parameters / perimeters
●paramount / tantamount
●paranoid
●parentheses
●parliment
●partake
●pass the muster
●passed / past
●passive voice
●past time
●pastorial
●patience / patients
●pause for concern
●pawn off
●payed / paid
●PC computer
●peace / piece
●peak / peek / pique
●peal out / peel out
●peasant / pheasant
●pedal / peddle
●pen / pin
●penultimate / next to last
●peoples
●per
●percent decrease
●percent / per cent
●percipitation
●peripheral
●pernickety / persnickety
●perogative / prerogative
●perpetuate / perpetrate
●perse
●persecute / prosecute
●present writer / I
●personal / personnel
●personality
●perspective / prospective
●peruse
●perverse / perverted
●phantom / fathom
●phenomena / phenomenon
●philippines
●phoney / phony
●phrasal verbs vs. nouns
●physical
●pianist
●picaresque / picturesque
●pickup
●picture
●pigeon English
●PIN number
●pinned
●pit in my stomach
●pith and vinegar
●plain / plane
●plays a factor
●playwrite
●plead innocent
●pleaded / pleated
●please RSVP / Please Reply
●plug-in
●plus / add
●podium / lectern
●poinsetta
●point being is that
●point in time
●point of you
●poisonous / venomous
●pole / poll
●pompom / pompon
●poo-poo
●populace / populous
●pore / pour
●possessed of / possessed by / possessed with
●PPS
●practicable / practical
●practice / practise
●practicle
●pray / prey
●pre-Madonna
●precede / proceed
●precedence / precedents
●precipitate / precipitous
●precurse
●predominante / predominant
●preemptory
●preferably
●prejudice / prejudiced
●premier / premiere
●premise / premises
●prepone
●prepositions
●prepositions (wrong)
●prescribe / proscribe
●presently / currently
●predominately
●prespiration
●pretty
●primer
●primevil
●principal / principle
●prioritize
●priority
●probably
●problematic
●prodigy / progeny / protégé
●program / programme
●prone / supine
●pronounciation
●prophecy / prophesy
●prosperity / posterity
●prostate / prostrate
●protagonist / proponent
●protray
●proved / proven
●psychologist / psychiatrist / psychotherapist
●pundint
●purposely / purposefully
●put the pedal to the medal
Q
●quantum leap
●quay / cay / key
●question / ask
●queue
●quick claim
●quiet / quite
●quotation marks
●quote
R
●racism
●rack / wrack
●raise
●rampart / rampant
●ran / run
●random
●rapport
●rate of speed
●ratio
●rational / rationale
●rationale / rationalization
●ravaging / ravishing / ravenous
●RBI / RBIs
●reactionary / reactive
●readably
●real / really
●realize / realise
●realms
●realtor
●reap what you sew
●reason because
●rebelling / revolting
●rebut / refute
●recent / resent
●recreate
●rediculous
●redo it over
●reeking havoc
●refrain / restrain
●refridgerator
●refute / reject
●regard / regards
●regime / regimen / regiment
●regretfully / regrettably
●reign / rein
●reknown
●religion
●religion believes
●religiosity / piety
●reluctant / reticent
●remotely close
●remuneration / renumeration
●reoccurring
●repel / repulse
●replete / complete
●reply back
●report into
●repungent
●request / ask
●resign / re-sign
●resignate
●resister / resistor
●respiratory
●respond back
●restauranter
●restive
●retch / wretch
●reticent / hesitant
●retrospective / retroactive
●return back
●revelant
●revert back
●revert / reply
●revolve / rotate
●revue / review
●rhetorical questions
●ridged / rigid
●riffle / rifle
●right of passage
●ring its neck
●ringer
●rio grande river / rio grande
●ripe with / rife with
●risky / risqué
●rob / steal
●rod
●role / roll
●rollover / roll over
●Romainian / Romanian
●romantic
●rondezvous
●root / rout / route
●rouge / rogue
●rpms
●rubbage
●Rueben
●ruff
●rural
●rye / wry
S
●sacred / scared
●sacreligious
●safety deposit box
●sail / sale / sell
●salsa sauce
●same difference
●sameo sameo
●sang / sung
●sanwhich
●sarcastic
●satellite
●saw / seen
●say / tell
●scarcely
●sceptic / skeptic
●schizophrenic
●sci-fi
●scone / sconce
●scotch
●scotch free / scot free
●scrapegoat
●sea change
●seam / seem
●seasonable / seasonal / unseasonable
●second of all
●segway
●select / selected
●self-esteam
●self-worth
●sense of false hope
●sense / since
●sensual / sensuous
●sentence fragments
●seperate/separate
●sergeant of arms
●service / serve
●set / sit
●setup / set up
●shall / will
●shan’t / shall not
●shear / sheer
●sheath / sheaf
●sherbert
●shimmy / shinny
●shined / shone
●shoe-in
●shone / shown
●shook
●should / would
●shoulder on
●show-stopper
●shrunk / shrank
●shutter to think
●sick / sic
●Sierra Nevada Mountains
●signaled out
●silicon / silicone
●simplistic
●single quotes
●Sir / Dame
●sister-in-laws
●skiddish
●slight of hand
●slog it out
●slow gin
●sluff off
●snuck
●so
●so fun
●soar / sore
●social / societal
●socialize
●sojourn / journey
●sole / soul
●somebody / someone
●somebody’s else
●sometime / some time
●sometimes always
●someways
●somewhat of a
●somewheres
●song/ works or composition
●sooner
●sooner than later
●sort after
●sort of
●sorta speak
●soundbyte
●soup du jour of the day
●sour grapes
●souse chef
●sowcow
●spaces after a period
●spaded / spayed
●span
●spare the moment
●speak / talk
●specially / especially
●specie
●spicket
●spiritualism
●spoke / said
●sprain / strain
●spree
●squash / quash
●squeeze / squoze
●staid / stayed
●stain glass
●stalactities / stalagmites
●stand / stance
●standalone / stand-alone
●state / countries
●stationary / stationery
●statue of limitations
●staunch / stanch
●steak / stake
●step foot
●stereo / high fidelity
●stint
●stock and trade
●stoled
●stomp
●stood / stayed
●straddled with
●straight / strait
●straightened
●straightjacket
●strength
●stress on
●stricken / struck
●strike a cord
●striped / stripped
●strong suite
●subject to / subjected to
●submittal
●substance-free
●substitute with
●succeed / secede
●suffer with
●sufficeth
●suit / suite
●sulking / skulking
●summary / summery
●summersault
●suped up
●supercede / supersede
●supposably
●suppose to
●supremist
●surfing the internet
●surplus neckline / surplice neckline
●suspect / suspicious
●suspicion
●swam / swum
●systematic / systemic
T
●table
●tad bit
●take a different tact
●take and
●taken back / taken aback
●tape, record
●tattle tail
●taught / taut
●taunt / taut
●teeth
●tempera, tempura
●tenant / tenet
●tender
●tentative
●Text-only version of Common Errors
●than / then
●thanks God
●thankyou
●that kind / that kind of
●that / than
●that / which
●the proof is in the pudding
●the quick and the dead
●the Ukraine
●their’s
●theirselves
●them
●theory
●therefor / therefore
●there’s
●these are them
●these kind
●these ones
●they / their (singular)
●they’re / their / there
●think on
●this here, that there
●though / thought / through
●threw / through
●throne / thrown
●through a mirror
●throws of passion
●thus far
●thusly
●tic
●timber / timbre
●time period
●times
●times smaller
●tirimisu
●to home
●to the manor born
●to / too / two
●to where
●today’s day and age
●today’s modern society
●toe a fine line
●toe-headed
●token / took / taken
●tolled / told
●tongue and cheek
●torchiere
●tore / torn
●torturous
●touch bases
●touche
●tounge
●tow the line
●toward / towards
●track home
●tradegy
●tragedy / travesty
●transition
●translucent / transparent / opaque
●tremblor
●tripple
●trite and true
●troop / troupe
●trustee / trusty
●try and
●turn into / turn in to
●tussled / tousled
●two to tangle
U
●UFO
●ugly American
●unchartered / uncharted
●unconscience
●under the guise that
●under weigh
●underestimated
●underlining / underlying
●undermind
●undo / undue
●undoubtably
●University of Indiana
●unkept
●unlike
●unpleased
●unrest
●unthaw
●untracked
●upmost
●upto
●urine analysis
●us / we
●use to
●use / usage
●used to could
●utilize / use
V
●vague reference
●vain / vane / vein
●valance / valence
●vapid / vacuous
●various
●vary
●veil of tears
●vendor
●veracious / voracious
●verb tense
●verbage
●verse
●verses / versus
●very sort of, very kind of
●very unique
●vice-like / vise-like
●vice / vise
●vichyssoise
●vicious / viscous circle / cycle
●video / film
●vinegarette / vinaigrette
●vintage point
●viola / voila
●virii
●visually impaired / blind
●vitae
●volumptous
W
●wail / whale
●wait on
●wake
●walk the talk
●wander / wonder
●want that
●warmongerer
●warrantee / warranty
●wary / weary / leery
●was / were
●wash
●waver / waiver
●wax
●way
●ways
●weak / week
●weather forecast for
●weather / wether / whether
●weiner
●wench / winch
●Wensday
●went
●we’re / were
●were / where
●wet your appetite
●whacky / wacky
●what
●wheat
●wheelbarrel
●whenever / when
●where (and prepositions)
●where it’s at
●whereabouts are
●wherefore
●whether
●whilst / while
●whim and a prayer / wing and a prayer
●whimp
●whip cream
●whisky / whiskey
●who / that
●who / whom
●whole-hardily
●who’s / whose
●whosever
●wile away / while away
●-wise
●wit / whit
●within / among
●woman / women
●wonderkind
●wont / won’t
●working progress
●worse comes to worse
●worser
●would have
●wrangle / wangle
●wrapped / rapt
●wreath / wreaths / wreathe / wreathes
●wreckless
●write me
●writting
●WWW
X
●Xmas / Christmas
Y
●ya’ll
●ye
●yea / yeah / yay
●year end and year out
●ying and yang
●yoke / yolk
●you
●you better
●you can’t have your cake and eat it too
●you know / you know what I’m saying
●you was
●your guys’s
●your / you
●your / you’re
●yourself
●youse
●you’ve got another thing coming
Z
●zero-sum gain
●zeroscape
●zoology