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A lot
Additionally
Administer, administrate
Adrenalin, Adrenaline
Affect, Effect
Aggravate
Algorithm, Logarithm
All right, Alright
All right, Alright
Allegory
Already, All ready
Already, All ready
Angst
Anti, Ante
Antipasto
Any more, Anymore
Apostrophe
Apostrophes with possessive
Apposition
A propos
Articles
As if
Articles
As if
Auld Lang Syne
Avatar
Back formations
Bait, Bate
Baited, Bated
Bandanna
Bar-B-Q
Bar-B-Q
Barbaric
Barbary Coast
Barbecue
Barbecue
BBQ
Barbecue
Barbecue
BBQ
Begging the question
Being as
Belgian
Belgium
Berber
betide
Better than
Between, Among
Bonds
Booty
Boxing Day
Bridal, Bridle
British
Buccaneer
Bungalow
Card sharp, Card shark
Champing, Chomping
Champion
Chase lounge, Chaise longue
Chase, Chaise
Citicorp
Clause
Collective nouns
Comma splice
Commas
Comparative
Comparative
Conditional
Conjunction
Conjunctions, coordinate
Conjunctions, correlative
Conjunctions, subordinate
Continual, Continuous
Contractions
Coronet, cornet
Corsair
Cot
“Could care less”
Craven conditional
Craven conditional
Cream, Crème
Dangling modifier
Declarative
Degree (in Adjectives)
Degree (in Adjectives)
Den
Dependent clause
Desert, Dessert
Diagrams
Dire straits,
Different from, Different than
Different from, Different than
Direct address
Discrete, Discreet
Dive, Dove
Echo question
Dive, Dove
Echo question
E.g.
Earmark
Eating high on the hog
Either
Elicit, Illicit
Elide
Emergent, Emerging
Enormity
Enormity
Ersatz
Espresso
Evolve
Evolve
Ex post facto
Expatriate, ex-patriot
Farther, Further
Fewer, Less
Fewer, Less
Figure of speech
Flak
Flaunt, Flaut
Foliage
Forte
Foreword, Forward
Freebooter
Freebooter
French
Fulsome
Fulsome
Galley
German
Gerund
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Gotterdammerung
Graduated
Grand
Grandiose
Grandiose
Groom
Grow
Grow
Gullah
Hammock
Hammock
Healthy, Healthful
Helvetica
Hindi
Hoard, Horde
Home, Hone
homograph
homonym
Homophone
Hopefully
House, Home
Hyphens
I.e.
Icon
Iconoclastic
If, Whether
Illusive, Elusive
Impact
Imperative
In vino veritas
Independent clause
Indicative
Interjections
Interrogative
Interrogative inflection
Intransitive
Intransitive
Inversion
Irony
Irrelevant
Irrelevant
jodhpurs
Juggernaut
Kaput
Klatsch
Klatsch
Lackadaisical
Laid, Lain
Language and “class”
Language and respect
Latin
Lavatory
Lend, Loan,
Lent
Lent
Lie, lay
Like
Like
Lingua Franca
Loaned
Loath, Loathe
Logarithm, Algorithm
Man-o’-war
Man-o’-war
Many, Much
Masochism
Masonry
Mea culpa
Metaphor
Metonym
Might, May
Might, May
Mischievous
Mitigate
Mixed metaphors
Moguls
Money
Mood
Mug
Native
Neither
Neither
Neologism
Niche, nitch
Niggardly
Noisome
Nominative
Noisome
Nominative
Non compos mentis
None
Nonrestrictive
Nouns
Nouveau riche
Nuclear
Object
Objective
Obligation
Off of
Orient, Orientate
Pajamas
Parallel structure
Particles
Parts of Speech
Peak, Peek, Pique
Persona non grata
Pirates
Piste
Plural
politic
Politics
Pore, Pour
Pork barrel
Positive
Positive
Possessive
Possessives
Powder room
PowerPoint
Predicate
Predicate nominative
Preposition
Prerogative
Prima facie
Privateer
Pronouns, case of
Pronouns, plural
Pronouns, singular
Pronouns, plural
Pronouns, singular
Prostate, Prostrate
Pundit
Squash, Quash
Strange
Quash
Quash
Quid pro quo
Quotation marks
Ralph Lauren
Rating agencies
Realtor
Reason is why, Reason is that
Reflexive and intensive pronouns
Reflexive and intensive pronouns
Rein, reign
Regionalisms
Relative clause
Relative clause
Responsibility
Restrictive
Rich
Savannah
Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude
Sentry
Sept. 11
Shades of meaning
Shall, Will
Shampoo
Sherbet, Sherbert, Sorbet
Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk
Sick
Simile
Simple
Simplistic
Sine qua non
Singular
So
Sofa, Couch
Southern
Spayed, Spaded
Spayed, Spaded
Spitting image, Spit and image
Split infinitive
SPQR
Stationary, stationery
Status
Straight and narrow path,
Stink, stank, stunk
Stink, stank, stunk
Subjunctive
Subjunctive, mandative
Subordinate clause
Subordinate conjunction
Superlative
Superlative
Sink, Sand, Sunk
Strait, straight
Suspect
Suspect
Suspicious
Swashbuckler
Symmetry
Synecdoche
Synecdoche
Tack, Tact
That, Which
Thug
Toilet
Tortuous, Torturous
Transitive
Tortuous, Torturous
Transitive
Troop, Troupe
Trope
Trope
U and Non-U Words
Urdu
Valet
Vocative O
Wall Street
Wealthy
Wealthy
Well words
Wet, Whet
Wet, Whet
Who, Whom, Whose
Whoever, Whomever
Wreak, Wrought
Wunderkind
Wunderkind
Ye
Yes
Your, You’re
Yes
Your, You’re
Zeitgeist
