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Confusing pairs of words...

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Would you accept this clause in the terms and conditions?
Would you except this clause in the terms and conditions?

Two very similar words in reasonably correct sentences, but they have opposite, or at least different, meanings. There are many similar sounding words that can cause confusion if they are transposed - affect and effect are two of the commonest.

Homonyms, homographs and homophones can be included, but contribute your favourites / most irritating / most frequently incorrect, and if you want to offer a sentence to show the difference, please do.

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my3cents

Speedwell wrote: »

Spelt is not a word that has fallen out of use; it is (at least) the name of a grain. Google and other spellcheckers are at best minor annoyances to me. I worked as a proofreader back in the day and an engineer manual writer more recently, and I have always found them to cause more problems than they solve. I spend an extraordinary time trying to teach them that this word or that is actually not misspelled.

But what I am thinking is that if people come to rely on for example Googles spelling checker then it will be Google that drives how the world spells.

I have to use a spelling checker because I can't spell, I don't even hear words correctly so with my phonetic spelling I can't get them right. I just have to know what words I spell incorrectly and then check them. Strange autistic thing I can spot something that is wrong or not inline with a convention but can't actually get it right myself?

Speedwell

my3cents wrote: »

But what I am thinking is that if people come to rely on for example Googles spelling checker then it will be Google that drives how the world spells.

I have to use a spelling checker because I can't spell, I don't even hear words correctly so with my phonetic spelling I can't get them right. I just have to know what words I spell incorrectly and then check them. Strange autistic thing I can spot something that is wrong or not inline with a convention but can't actually get it right myself?

haha, as a fellow Aspie I can't tell you. One of my "weird obsessions" has always been spelling. So much so that instead of getting bent out of shape about other people's spelling, I just mentally correct it and keep going. Also, if generations of schoolteachers, newspapers, novelists, and other standard-bearers have not taught people through exposure to spell properly, I doubt Google is going to have any greater effect.

I should apologise (apologize) for using occasional American spelling in my posts. I'm an American, but I'm trying to train myself to spell over here.

Thud

Renumeration : recounting
Remuneration : payment

Specific / Pacific

my3cents

Thud wrote: »

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Specific / Pacific

An ocean of difference.

my3cents

One I have jut had to correct myself, berry was what I had typed but it looked wrong because what I meant was bury

miamee

I often see 'debit' used instead of 'debt'.

P. Breathnach

Discrete/discreet
Fearsome/fearful

demelzareveley

Answer/Reply

my3cents

hyperthermia / hypothermia

looksee

Couple more medical(ish) ones, prostate and prostrate, ante and anti.