commonly confused words

@clintz15 (974)
India
September 23, 2006 12:16pm CST
affect and effect, appraise with apprise, censure with censor, climactic and climatic, complement and compliment, loose with lose, palate and palette, stationary and stationery, turbid and turgid, loath and loathe ........... the list is unending it seems ......... Can you find more ?
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12 responses
28 Sep 06
Wonder and wander. Although I do particularly find it funny when people write "I'll wonder over there" I can't help it, I know I shouldn't!
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@rebelann (112983)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 19
Another is They're and Their, those really get misused.
@DeenaD (2684)
• United States
30 Sep 06
How about RAISE and RAZE. These are opposites - as in raising a barn, versus razing it to the ground. I've always been baffled as to why English would allow two words with the same sound and opposite meanings.
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@rebelann (112983)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 19
I'll bet people from the 15th century would really be confused with the English of today.
@bhchy1 (6047)
• United States
27 Sep 06
Why are these words confusing??
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@rebelann (112983)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 19
Probably because anyone learning English would not realize the difference when they hear the word pronounced.
@HomerBundy (1325)
• United States
27 Sep 06
where and were and wear
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@mythmoh (3984)
• United States
27 Sep 06
it's --its wheather--weather advice--advise quite--quiet their--there- you're--your week-weak but--yet
@rebelann (112983)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 19
You've caught quite a few of them.
@masoud02 (176)
• Oman
24 Sep 06
bath and birth, Calendar and colander,licence and license moral and morale, final and finale,test and taste,then and than,gate and get
@juangf (19)
• Spain
24 Sep 06
Yes, it's true. Also false-friends are a problem for non english native speakers. Actually sounds similar to Actualmente (spanish), but Actualmente means currently. There are many words like that one.
@i_agree_but (1183)
• United Arab Emirates
29 Sep 06
all right - alright all together - altogether allusion - illusion altrnately -alternatively beside -besides bimonthly -semimonthly capital -capitol cite -site discrete -discrete disinterested -uninterested elicit -illicite emigrant -immigrant farther -further foreward -forward stationary -stationery ....
@blessonje (1651)
• India
24 Sep 06
stationary and stationery...ya its little confusing sometime...lots of words there ..
@psmohan (1877)
• India
28 Sep 06
Cloth and clothe
@labatt113 (401)
• United States
27 Sep 06
the and teh LOL