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I tell you, less vs fewer just seems to be one of those grammar-related mistakes that get under people’s skin!  Go ahead and google it, and you’ll find impassioned grammarians bemoaning the “10 [...]

To and too are homophones—words that sound the same but have different meanings—that’s just one of the reasons they are so often confused and misused by English language learners.  The other [...]

  Commonly misused words are those that have been repeated so much that  it is the incorrect interpretation of the word that becomes the ‘accepted’ meaning.  Commonly misused [...]

As with ‘there, their and they’re,’ the two words, ‘weather and whether‘ are commonly confused – both spoken and written – words.  These words are homonyms –  which means [...]

There their they’re as a group of words are often top of the list of  ‘Commonly Confused Words’ in the English language. This is because these words – there their they’re – are part of [...]

The words,  insure, ensure and assure are often used incorrectly.  What is the difference between insure and ensure, and also, assure?  As  www.vocabulary.com succinctly states: “To assure [...]