Common Errors in English
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absorbtion *
accept/except *
accidently *
adapt/adopt *
adultry *
adverse/averse *
advice/advise *
affect/effect *
ain't *
altogether/ all together *
allude/refer *
allusion/illusion *
alot *
alright *
altar/alter *
alternate/alternative *
alumnus/alumni *
amature *
ambiguous/ambivalent *
amount/number *
anecdote/antidote *
angel/angle *
anxious/eager *
any more *
apartheid *
as per *
aspect/respect *
ax *
apostrophes *
appraise/apprise *
artic *
as far as *
as time progressed *
assure/ensure/insure *
asterick *
as of yet *
ATM machine *
awhile/a while *
bare/bear *
basicly *
bazaar/bizarre *
behaviors *
between *
blatant *
born out of *
both/each *
boughten *
bourgeois *
bouyant *
brand names *
bring/take *
beaurocracy *
build off of *
Calvary/cavalry *
canon/cannon *
capital/capitol *
caramel/carmel *
carat/caret/carrot/karat *
ceasar *
celibate/chaste *
celtic *
center around *
chaise longue *
chemicals *
chuck/chunk *
cite/site/sight *
cliché/clichéd *
close/clothes *
close proximity *
coarse/course *
compare and contrast *
complement/compliment *
comprised of *
concensus *
concerted effort *
confusionism *
congradulations *
continual/continuous *
core/corps/corpse *
could care less *
could of/should of/would of *
council/counsel *
criteria/criterion *
crucifiction *
data *
decimate *
deep-seeded *
definate *
degrade/denigrate/downgrade *
deja vu *
desert/dessert *
dieties *
differ/vary *
different than *
discreet/discrete *
disinterested/uninterested *
disrespect *
dolly/handcart *
dominate/dominant *
drank/drunk *
dual/duel *
e.g./i.e. *
ect. *
each *
eighteen hundreds/nineteenth century *
elicit/illicit *
embaress *
emigrate/immigrate *
eminent/imminent/immanent *
enormity/enormousness *
enviroment *
epigram/epigraph/epitaph/epithet *
everyday *
exhileration *
expresso *
expresses that/says that *
farther/further *
fatal/fateful *
faze/phase *
febuary *
50's *
firey *
flaunt/flout *
flesh out/flush out *
flounder/founder *
for all intensive purposes *
forbidding/foreboding/formidable *
forego/forgo *
foresee/forsee *
formally/formerly *
forward *
forte *
fortuitous/fortunate *
foul/fowl *
fraction *
Frankenstein *
French dip with au jus *
from . . . to *
from the beginning of time *
fulsome *
gamut/gauntlet *
gaurd *
Ghandi *
gibe/jibe/jive *
gone/went *
good/well *
grammer *
grisly/grizzly *
ground zero *
he don't *
HIV virus *
hanged/hung *
heighth *
help the problem *
heroin/heroine *
hippie/hippy *
historic/historical *
an historic *
home page *
hyphenation *
hypocritical *
I me myself *
if I was/if I were *
immaculate conception/virgin birth *
impact *
impertinent/irrelevant *
imply/infer *
infact *
infinite *
in regards to *
in the fact that *
incredible *
indepth *
incidences/incidents/instances *
install/instill *
intensifiers *
interpretate *
into/in to *
ironically *
irregardless *
islams *
Isreal *
it's/its *
judgement *
laissez-faire *
large *
lay/lie *
lead/led *
less/fewer *
libary *
light-year *
"lite" spelling *
literally *
loose/lose *
lustful/lusty *
media *
Medieval Ages *
mediocre *
mic *
mischievious *
misnomer *
more importantly *
Mount Fujiyama *
much differently *
music/singing *
mute point *
nauseated/nauseous *
neice *
nieve *
noone *
nuclear *
often *
one-dimensional *
one in the same *
one of the only *
only *
orders of magnitude *
organic *
orientate *
over-exaggerated *
palate/palette/pallet *
parallelism in a series *
parameters/perimeters *
parentheses *
passed/past *
peace/piece *
peak/peek/pique *
peasant/pheasant *
peoples *
perogative/prerogative *
perspective/prospective *
phenomena/phenomenon *
picaresque/picturesque *
PIN number *
playwrite *
plug-in *
podium/lectern *
pole/poll *
point in time *
pompom/pompon *
pore/pour *
practice/practise *
practicle *
pray/prey *
predominant/predominate *
predominately *
preemptory *
premier/premiere *
primer *
principal/principle *
precede/proceed *
precipitate/precipitous *
probably *
pronounciation *
prophecy/prophesy *
prostate/prostrate *
protray *
quality *
quantum leap *
quiet/quite *
quote *
quotation marks *
ran/run *
reactionary/reactive *
real/really *
realtor *
reason because *
rebelling/revolting *
rebut/refute *
recent/resent *
reeking havoc *
reign/rein *
religion *
reluctant/reticent *
remuneration/renumeration *
reoccurring *
repel/repulse *
role/roll *
safety deposit box *
sail/sale/sell *
salsa sauce *
SAT test *
satellite *
schizophrenic *
sci-fi *
sea change *
seam/seem *
second of all *
self-worth *
sherbert *
shrimp scampi *
silicon/silicone *
single quotes *
snuck *
social/societal *
so fun *
somewhat of a *
soup du jour of the day *
stationary/stationery *
stereo *
straightjacket *
straight-laced *
substance-free *
summary/summery *
supercede *
suppose to *
surfing the Internet *
tenant/tenet *
than/then *
that/which *
theirselves *
they're/their/there *
there's *
these kind *
these ones *
they/their (singular) *
throne/thrown *
time period *
to/too/two *
today's modern society *
tongue and cheek *
track home *
tradegy *
troop/troupe *
try and *
unconscience *
University of Indiana *
upmost *
use to *
very unique *
vicious/viscous circle/cycle *
video *
viola/voila *
volumptuous *
wash *
weather/wether/whether *
weather forecast calls for *
were/where *
wet your appetite *
wheat *
whereabouts are *
where it's at *
whimp *
who/whom *
who's/whose *
a whole 'nother *
woman/women *
writting *
your/you're *
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