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A
- A.D.
- a/an
- abject
- able to
- absorbtion
- abstruse / obtuse
- academia
- acapella, a capella
- accede / exceed
- accent marks
- accept / except
- accessory
- accidently
- accurate / precise
- acronyms and apostrophes
- acrossed
- actionable / doable
- actual fact / actually
- ad / add
- ad nauseum
- adapt / adopt
- added bonus
- addicting
- administer / minister
- administrate
- admission / admittance
- adopted / adoptive
- adultry
- advance / advanced
- adverse / averse
- advice / advise
- adviser / advisor
- advocate for
- aesthetic / ascetic
- affect / effect
- affluence / effluence
- Afghan / Afghani
- African American
- afterall
- afterwards / afterwords
- agnostic / atheist
- agreeance / agreement
- ahold / hold
- aid / aide
- ain’t
- aisle / isle
- ala
- all
- all and all
- all be it
- all for not
- all goes well / augurs well
- all of the sudden
- all ready / already
- all the farther
- alleged / allegedly
- alliterate / illiterate
- alls
- allude / illude
- allude / refer
- allusion / illusion
- allusive / elusive / illusive
- almost
- along the same vein
- alot
- aloud / allowed
- alright
- altar / alter
- alterior / ulterior
- alternate / alternative
- altho, tho
- altogether / all together
- alumnus / alumni
- AM / PM
- amature
- ambiguous / ambivalent
- ambivalent / indifferent
- American
- amongst / among
- amoral / immoral
- amount / number
- ampitheater / amphitheater
- an / and
- an historic
- analogous
- ancestor
- and also
- and / or
- anecdote / antidote
- angel / angle
- another words
- anteclimax
- antihero
- anxious / eager
- any more
- Any other number of
- any time
- anyone / any one
- anyways
- anywhere
- anywheres
- apart / a part
- apiece / a piece
- apostrophes
- appauled
- appose / oppose
- appraise / apprise
- apropos / appropriate
- Arab / Arabic / Arabian
- architected
- around / about
- arrant / errant
- arthuritis
- artic
- artisanal / artesian
- as
- as best as
- as far as
- as follow
- as less as possible
- as of yet
- as per
- as such
- as time progressed
- ascared
- ascent / assent
- ascribe / subscribe
- ashamed / a shame
- asocial
- aspect / respect
- assess
- assure / ensure / insure
- asterick
- astrology / astronomy
- aswell
- at all
- atheist
- athlete
- ATM machine
- attain / obtain
- attribute / contribute
- auger / augur
- aural / oral
- autobiography / biography
- avaidable
- avenge / revenge
- avocation / vocation
- away / a way
- awe, shucks
- ax
- axel / axle
B
- back / forward / up in time
- backseat / back seat
- backslash / slash
- backup / back up
- backward / backwards
- backyard / back yard
- bad
- bail / bale
- bailout / bail out
- baises
- baited breath
- baldfaced, boldfaced
- ball, bawl
- barb wire
- barbecue
- bare / bear
- barter / haggle
- base / bass
- based around
- basicly
- bazaar / bizarre
- beat / bead
- beaurocracy
- beckon call
- began / begun
- begs belief
- begs the question
- behaviors
- being that
- belief / believe
- belief toward
- below table
- bemuse
- benefactor / beneficiaries
- beside / besides
- better
- between
- between you and I
- beyond the pail
- bias / biased
- Bible
- bicep
- bit
- biweekly
- blatant
- blindsighted
- block / bloc
- blog
- blonde / blond
- blunt / brunt
- boarders / borders
- boast your confidence / bolster your confidence
- bologna / baloney
- bon a petite
- bonafied
- bonds / bounds
- boost in the arm
- bored of
- born / borne
- born out of
- borrow / loan
- borrow off
- both
- both / each
- bought / brought
- boughten
- bounce
- bourgeois
- bow
- brainchild
- brake / break
- brand names
- brang
- breach / breech
- breakup / break up
- breath / breathe
- breeches
- bring / take
- Britain / Briton
- broach / brooch
- broke
- brunt / butt
- brussel sprout
- build off of
- bullion / bouillon
- bully / pulpit
- bulrush / bum’s rush
- buoyant
- but . . . however
- butt
- buttload
- buttox
- by/ ‘bye / buy
- by far and away
C
- cacao / cocoa
- cache / cachet
- caddy-corner
- call the question
- callous
- calm, cool, and collective
- Calvary / cavalry
- can goods
- can’t . . . too
- Canadian geese
- cannot / can not
- canon / cannon
- canvas / canvass
- capeesh
- capital / capitol
- caramel / carmel
- carat / caret / carrot / karat
- careen / career
- caring
- carousal / carousel
- catch-22
- catched
- Caucasian
- CD-ROM disk
- ceasar
- cease the day
- celibate / chaste
- celtic
- cement / concrete
- censor / censure / sensor / censer
- center around
- center of attraction
- cents
- ceremonial / ceremonious
- chai tea
- chaise longue
- chalk-full
- Champaign / Champagne
- chauvinist
- Check
- chemicals
- Chicano / Latino/ Hispanic
- chock it up
- choose / chose
- chrispy
- chuck / chunk
- Church
- “Churchill” on Prepositions
- chute / shoot
- cite / site / sight
- clamor / clamber
- classic / classical
- cleanup
- clench / clinch
- cliché / clichéd
- click / clique
- climactic / climatic
- close / clothes
- close proximity
- closed-minded
- coarse / course
- coat strings
- coffee clatch
- coiffeur
- cold slaw
- coliseum
- collaborate / corroborate
- collage / college
- collective plural
- Colombia / Columbia
- colons / semicolons
- Colorado
- coma / comma
- come with
- commas
- Commonly Made Suggestions
- company names with apostrophes
- compare and contrast
- compare to
- complement / compliment
- complementary / complimentary
- comprised of
- concensus
- concerning
- concerted effort
- confident / confidant / confidante
- conflicted
- confusionism
- congradulations
- connote / denote
- conscience, conscious, consciousness
- conservativism
- contaminates
- continual / continuous
- contrary / contrast
- contrasts / contrast with
- conversate
- copywrite
- core / corps / corpse
- coronate
- costumer
- could care less
- could give a damn
- could of, should of, would of
- council / counsel / consul
- couple
- cowered / coward
- cowtow
- crackerjacks
- crafts
- crape / crepe
- credible
- creeped / crept
- crescendo / climax
- crevice / crevasse
- crick / creek
- criteria / criterion
- criticism
- critique
- crochet / crotchet / crochety
- croissant
- crowbar / wrecking bar
- crucifiction / crucifixion
- crucifix / cross
- cue / queue
- cup of tea
- cursing through veins
- currant / current
- curve your appetite
- cut and dry
- cut and paste
D
- dairy / diary
- damp squid
- damped / dampened
- dangling and misplaced modifiers
- daring-do
- data / datum
- dateline / deadline
- day in age
- daylight savings time
- de rigueur
- deal
- dealed
- death nail
- debrief
- decent / descent / dissent
- deceptively
- decimate
- deep-seeded
- defence / defense
- definate
- deformation / defamation
- defuse / diffuse
- degrade / denigrate / downgrade
- degree titles
- deja vu
- democrat / democratic
- demure / demur
- denied of
- depends
- depravation / deprivation
- depreciate / deprecate
- derisory / derisive
- desert / dessert
- desirable / desirous
- deviant / deviate
- device / devise
- devote / devout
- dew / do / due
- dialogue
- dieties
- differ / vary
- different
- differently abled, physically challenged
- digestive track
- dike / dyke
- dilemma
- dire straights
- directions
- disasterous
- disburse / disperse
- disc / disk
- disconcerning
- discreet / discrete
- discretion is the better part of valor
- discussed / disgust
- disease names
- disembark the vessel
- disgression
- disinterested / uninterested
- dispose
- disremember
- disrespect
- dissemble / disassemble
- divide by half
- do respect
- doctorial
- doesn’t supposed to
- dogma, doctrine
- dolly / handcart
- dominate / dominant
- done
- don’t / doesn’t
- donut
- do’s and don’ts
- double negatives
- double possesive
- doubt
- doubtlessly
- douse / dowse
- dove
- downfall / drawback
- download / upload
- dozed / dosed
- dozen of
- drank / drunk
- drastic
- dredge / drudge / trudge
- dribble
- drier
- drips and drabs
- drive / disk
- drug
- dual / duel
- duck tape
- due to the fact that
- duly / dully
- dyeing / dying
E
- e.g. / i.e.
- each
- early adapter
- earmarks
- earth, moon
- easedrop
- ecology / environment
- economic / economical
- ecstatic
- ect.
- -ed / -t
- edge on
- eek / eke
- efforting
- ei / ie
- either are / either is
- either / or, neither / nor
- electrocute / shock
- elegy / eulogy
- elicit / illicit
- ellipses
- embaress
- emergent / emergency
- emigrate / immigrate
- eminent / imminent / immanent
- empathy / sympathy
- emphasize on
- emulate / imitate
- en suite
- enamored by
- end result
- endemic / epidemic
- engine / motor
- English / British
- enjoy to
- enormity / enormousness
- enquire / inquire
- enthuse
- entomology / etymology
- envelop / envelope
- envious / jealous
- environment
- epic / epoch
- epicenter
- epigram / epigraph / epithet
- epitomy
- eponymous
- equally as
- equivocate / equate
- -er / -est
- error / err
- -es
- espouse / expound / expand
- et al.
- -eth
- ethics / morals / morale
- ethnic
- ever so often
- every
- every since
- Everyday
- everyone / every one
- everytime
- evidence to
- evoke / invoke
- exact same
- exalt / exult
- exasperate / exacerbate
- excape
- exception proves the rule
- exceptional / exceptionable
- excrable
- execute on
- exhileration
- exited / excited
- exorcise / excercise
- expatriot
- expecially
- expensive, cheap
- explicitly / implicitly
- exponential growth
- expressed / express
- expresses that
- expresso
- extend / extent
- extended, extensive
- extract revenge
- exulted / exalted
F
- factoid
- fair/ fare
- faithful / fateful
- far be it for me
- fastly
- fatal / fateful
- farther / further
- faun / fawn
- faze / phase
- fearful / fearsome
- feburary
- Federal (capitalization)
- feelings for / feelings about
- feint / faint
- fellow classmate
- female / woman
- fiance / fiancee
- film
- finalize
- fine toothcomb / fine-tooth comb
- firey
- first annual
- first floor / ground floor
- first name / family
- firstable
- fiscal / physical
- fit the bill / fill the bill
- fits to a tee
- fittest
- fixing
- flair / flare
- flak / flack
- flaunt / flout
- flesh out / flush out
- floe / flow
- floppy disk / hard disk
- flounder / founder
- fluke
- flusterated
- flys
- focus around
- followup
- font / typeface
- foot / feet
- footnotes / endnotes
- for
- for all intensive purposes
- for / fore / four
- for free
- for goodness’ sakes
- for one
- for sale / on sale
- for sell
- for sure / sure
- forbidding / foreboding / formidable
- forceful / forcible / forced
- forego / forgo
- forever
- formally / formerly
- forsee
- fortuitous / fortunate
- foul / fowl
- fourty
- fowl swoop
- framework / groundwork
- Frankenstein
- frankly
- french dip with au jus
- freshman / freshmen
- from the beginning of time
- from . . . to
- full proof
- fully well
- -fuls / -ful
- fulsome
- functionality
- furl / furrow
- fushia
G
- g / q
- gaff
- gamut / gauntlet
- gander / dander
- gardener snake
- garnish / garner
- gauge
- gaurd
- gender
- genuine
- gerunds & pronouns
- get me
- Ghandi
- gibe / jibe / jive
- gift / give
- gig
- gild
- goal / gaol
- goal / objective
- god
- goes
- going forward
- gone / went
- gonna
- good-by / good-bye / goodby / goodbye
- good / well
- got / gotten
- got to
- government
- gp practice
- graduate
- graffiti
- grammer
- grasping for straws
- gratis /gratuitous
- gray / grey
- greatful
- grievous
- grill cheese
- grill / grille
- grinds / grounds
- grisly / grizzly
- ground zero
- group (plural vs. singular)
- grow
- guess who?
- gull / gall
- gut-wrenching / heart-rending
- gyp / cheat
H
- had ought
- hadn’t have
- hail / hale
- hairbrained
- hand and hand
- handicap / disability
- hangar / hanger
- hanged / hung
- hanging indent
- Hanukkah
- happy belated birthday
- hardly
- hardly never
- hardy / hearty
- hark / hearken
- hayday
- he don’t
- heading
- heal / heel
- hear / here
- hearing-impaired
- heavily / strongly
- heighth
- help the problem
- hence why
- herbs / spices
- here’s / here are
- heroin / heroine
- hew cry
- highbred / hybrid
- highly looked on
- him, her / he, she
- Hindi / Hindu
- hippie / hippy
- his and her’s
- hisself
- historic / historical
- hit and miss
- HIV virus
- hoard / horde
- hock / hawk
- hoi polloi
- hold your peace / say your piece
- hole / whole
- holocaust
- home page
- homophobic
- hone in
- hors d’ oeuvres
- how to
- humanism / humanist
- humanity
- humus / hummus
- hundreds / nineteenth
- hyperdermic
- hyphenation
- hyphens & dashes
- hypocritical
- hypocritical
- hysterical / hilarious
I
- I / 1
- i / me / myself
- -ic
- ice tea
- idea / ideal
- idle / idol
- if I were
- if not
- if / whether
- ignorant
- Illinois
- immaculate conception / virgin birth
- impact
- impactful
- impassible / impassable
- impeach
- impertinent / irrelevant
- impertinent / irrelevant
- imply / infer
- infact
- in lieu of / in light of
- in mass
- in memorial
- in regards to
- in route
- in shambles / a shambles
- in spite of / despite
- in store
- in tact
- in terms of
- in the fact that
- in the mist
- incase
- incent
- incidence / incidents / instances
- incidently / incidentally
- includes
- incredible
- incredulous / incredible
- indepth
- Indian / Native American
- indite / indict
- individual
- infamous / notorious
- infinite
- inflammable
- influencial / influential
- -ing
- inkpen
- input
- insight / incite
- install / instill
- instances / instants
- insundry
- intend on
- intense / intensive
- intensifiers
- intercession
- interesting
- interface
- intergrate
- interment / internment
- intermural / intramural / extramural
- Internet / intranet
- interpretate
- into / in to
- intricate / integral
- intrigue
- invested interest
- invite / invitation
- Iraq
- ironically / coincidentally
- irregardless
- is, is
- Islams
- isn’t it / innit
- Israeli / Israelite
- Isreal
- issues
- itch
- its / it’s
J
- jack / plug
- jam / jamb
- jerry-built / jury-rigged
- Jew
- Jew / Hebrew
- jewelry
- job titles
- John Henry / John Hancock
- John Hopkins
- joint possessives
- judgement
- junta
- just assume
- just / jest
- just so happens
- jutebox
K
L
- l / ll
- laissez-faire
- lama / llama
- land lover
- languish / luxuriate
- large
- late / former
- later / latter
- laundry mat
- laxadaisical / lackadaisical
- lay / lie
- layed / laid
- LCD display
- leach / leech
- lead / led
- least / lest
- leave
- legend
- lense
- lentil / lintel
- less painless
- lessen / lesson
- let alone
- let’s / lets
- liable / libel
- liaise
- libary
- licence / license
- light-year
- lighted / lit
- lightening / lightning
- like
- like for
- likeliness / likeness
- likker / liquor
- lion’s share
- lip-sing
- listserv / list
- “lite” spelling
- literally
- literature
- little own
- little to none
- lived
- loath / loathe
- login
- logon
- lol
- long story short
- lookit
- lose / loose
- loser / looser
- lot, plenty, load (number)
- lozenger
- lustful / lusty
- luxuriant / luxurious
- -ly adjectives
M
- MAC / Mac
- macabre
- maddening crowd
- magic bullet / silver bullet
- majority are / majority is
- majorly
- make due
- make pretend
- mantle / mantel
- manufacture / manufacturer
- marinate on
- marital / martial
- marshall
- marshmellow
- mash potatoes
- mass
- masseuse
- material / materiel
- may / might
- maybe / may be
- me either
- mean for
- mean / median
- meantime / meanwhile
- medal / metal / meddle
- media
- Medieval Ages
- mediocre
- medium / median
- meet up
- memorium
- meteor / meterorite / meteoroid
- methodology
- mfr. / mfg.
- mic
- middleaged
- midrift
- might has well
- might could
- might ought
- militate / mitigate
- mind of information
- miner / minor
- miniscule
- minority
- minuet / minute
- minus
- minus well
- mischievious
- mislead / misled
- misnomer
- mispell
- misplaced stress
- mixed-up media
- molten / melted
- money is no option
- Mongoloid
- mono e mono
- moral / morale
- morays
- more importantly
- more / most
- moreso
- most always
- motherload
- motion / move
- Mount Fujiyama
- much differently
- muchly
- mucus / mucous
- multipart names
- multiply by double
- mumble jumbo, mumbo jumbo
- music / singing
- must of
- mute point
- myriad of
N
- n’
- name, pronoun
- nauseated / nauseous
- naval / navel
- near
- neck in neck
- needs -ed / -ing
- neice
- Nevada
- nevermind
- new lease of life
- next store
- next, this
- nicety / niceness
- nickle
- nieve
- niggard
- ninty
- nip it in the butt
- no sooner when
- no such thing
- Nobel Prize
- Non-Errors
- none
- nonplussed
- noone
- not
- not all
- not all that
- not hardly
- notate / note
- nothing
- notorious
- now and days
- nowheres
- nuclear
- number of verb
- numbers
- numerous of
- nuptual
O
- O / zero
- object d’art
- obsolescent / obsolete
- octopi
- odd
- oeuvre
- of
- of __’s
- ofcourse
- offense / offence
- offline
- oft chance / off chance
- often
- oggle
- oh / o
- OK
- Old English
- old fashion
- old-timer’s disease
- old wise tale
- on accident
- on the contraire
- on the lamb
- on the same token / by the same token
- on tomorrow
- once and a while
- once / ones
- one-dimensional
- one in the same
- one of the only
- one of the (singular)
- ones / one’s
- ongoingly
- online / on line
- only
- onto / on to
- op-ed
- open / unlocked / unlatched
- opportunist
- oppose to
- oral / verbal
- orders of magnitude
- ordinance / ordnance
- Oregon
- organic
- oriental
- orientate
- ostensively
- our
- outcast / outcaste
- over and out
- over-exaggerated
- oversee / overlook
- overtake / take over
- owness
P
- page / site
- pair (number)
- pair / pare / pear
- palate / palette / pallet
- par excellance
- parallel
- parallelism in a series
- parallelled / paralleled
- paralyzation
- parameters / perimeters
- paramount / tantamount
- paranoid
- parentheses
- parliment
- partake
- pass the muster
- passed / past
- passive voice
- past time
- pastorial
- patience / patients
- pause for concern
- pawn off
- payed / paid
- PC computer
- peace / piece
- peak / peek / pique
- peal out / peel out
- peasant / pheasant
- pedal / peddle
- pen / pin
- penultimate / next to last
- peoples
- per
- percent decrease
- percent / per cent
- percipitation
- peripheral
- pernickety / persnickety
- perogative / prerogative
- perpetuate / perpetrate
- perse
- persecute / prosecute
- present writer / I
- personal / personnel
- personality
- perspective / prospective
- peruse
- perverse / perverted
- phantom / fathom
- phenomena / phenomenon
- philippines
- phoney / phony
- phrasal verbs vs. nouns
- physical
- pianist
- picaresque / picturesque
- pickup
- picture
- pigeon English
- PIN number
- pinned
- pit in my stomach
- pith and vinegar
- plain / plane
- plays a factor
- playwrite
- plead innocent
- pleaded / pleated
- please RSVP / Please Reply
- plug-in
- plus / add
- podium / lectern
- poinsetta
- point being is that
- point in time
- point of you
- poisonous / venomous
- pole / poll
- pompom / pompon
- poo-poo
- populace / populous
- pore / pour
- possessed of / possessed by / possessed with
- PPS
- practicable / practical
- practice / practise
- practicle
- pray / prey
- pre-Madonna
- precede / proceed
- precedence / precedents
- precipitate / precipitous
- precurse
- predominante / predominant
- preemptory
- preferably
- prejudice / prejudiced
- premier / premiere
- premise / premises
- prepone
- prepositions
- prepositions (wrong)
- prescribe / proscribe
- presently / currently
- predominately
- prespiration
- pretty
- primer
- primevil
- principal / principle
- prioritize
- priority
- probably
- problematic
- prodigy / progeny / protégé
- program / programme
- prone / supine
- pronounciation
- prophecy / prophesy
- prosperity / posterity
- prostate / prostrate
- protagonist / proponent
- protray
- proved / proven
- psychologist / psychiatrist / psychotherapist
- pundint
- purposely / purposefully
- put the pedal to the medal
Q
R
- racism
- rack / wrack
- raise
- rampart / rampant
- ran / run
- random
- rapport
- rate of speed
- ratio
- rational / rationale
- rationale / rationalization
- ravaging / ravishing / ravenous
- RBI / RBIs
- reactionary / reactive
- readably
- real / really
- realize / realise
- realms
- realtor
- reap what you sew
- reason because
- rebelling / revolting
- rebut / refute
- recent / resent
- recreate
- rediculous
- redo it over
- reeking havoc
- refrain / restrain
- refridgerator
- refute / reject
- regard / regards
- regime / regimen / regiment
- regretfully / regrettably
- reign / rein
- reknown
- religion
- religion believes
- religiosity / piety
- reluctant / reticent
- remotely close
- remuneration / renumeration
- reoccurring
- repel / repulse
- replete / complete
- reply back
- report into
- repungent
- request / ask
- resign / re-sign
- resignate
- resister / resistor
- respiratory
- respond back
- restauranter
- restive
- retch / wretch
- reticent / hesitant
- retrospective / retroactive
- return back
- revelant
- revert back
- revert / reply
- revolve / rotate
- revue / review
- rhetorical questions
- ridged / rigid
- riffle / rifle
- right of passage
- ring its neck
- ringer
- rio grande river / rio grande
- ripe with / rife with
- risky / risqué
- rob / steal
- rod
- role / roll
- rollover / roll over
- Romainian / Romanian
- romantic
- rondezvous
- root / rout / route
- rouge / rogue
- rpms
- rubbage
- Rueben
- ruff
- rural
- rye / wry
S
- sacred / scared
- sacreligious
- safety deposit box
- sail / sale / sell
- salsa sauce
- same difference
- sameo sameo
- sang / sung
- sanwhich
- sarcastic
- satellite
- saw / seen
- say / tell
- scarcely
- sceptic / skeptic
- schizophrenic
- sci-fi
- scone / sconce
- scotch
- scotch free / scot free
- scrapegoat
- sea change
- seam / seem
- seasonable / seasonal / unseasonable
- second of all
- segway
- select / selected
- self-esteam
- self-worth
- sense of false hope
- sense / since
- sensual / sensuous
- sentence fragments
- seperate/separate
- sergeant of arms
- service / serve
- set / sit
- setup / set up
- shall / will
- shan’t / shall not
- shear / sheer
- sheath / sheaf
- sherbert
- shimmy / shinny
- shined / shone
- shoe-in
- shone / shown
- shook
- should / would
- shoulder on
- show-stopper
- shrunk / shrank
- shutter to think
- sick / sic
- Sierra Nevada Mountains
- signaled out
- silicon / silicone
- simplistic
- single quotes
- Sir / Dame
- sister-in-laws
- skiddish
- slight of hand
- slog it out
- slow gin
- sluff off
- snuck
- so
- so fun
- soar / sore
- social / societal
- socialize
- sojourn / journey
- sole / soul
- somebody / someone
- somebody’s else
- sometime / some time
- sometimes always
- someways
- somewhat of a
- somewheres
- song/ works or composition
- sooner
- sooner than later
- sort after
- sort of
- sorta speak
- soundbyte
- soup du jour of the day
- sour grapes
- souse chef
- sowcow
- spaces after a period
- spaded / spayed
- span
- spare the moment
- speak / talk
- specially / especially
- specie
- spicket
- spiritualism
- spoke / said
- sprain / strain
- spree
- squash / quash
- squeeze / squoze
- staid / stayed
- stain glass
- stalactities / stalagmites
- stand / stance
- standalone / stand-alone
- state / countries
- stationary / stationery
- statue of limitations
- staunch / stanch
- steak / stake
- step foot
- stereo / high fidelity
- stint
- stock and trade
- stoled
- stomp
- stood / stayed
- straddled with
- straight / strait
- straightened
- straightjacket
- strength
- stress on
- stricken / struck
- strike a cord
- striped / stripped
- strong suite
- subject to / subjected to
- submittal
- substance-free
- substitute with
- succeed / secede
- suffer with
- sufficeth
- suit / suite
- sulking / skulking
- summary / summery
- summersault
- suped up
- supercede / supersede
- supposably
- suppose to
- supremist
- surfing the internet
- surplus neckline / surplice neckline
- suspect / suspicious
- suspicion
- swam / swum
- systematic / systemic
T
- table
- tad bit
- take a different tact
- take and
- taken back / taken aback
- tape, record
- tattle tail
- taught / taut
- taunt / taut
- teeth
- tempera, tempura
- tenant / tenet
- tender
- tentative
- Text-only version of Common Errors
- than / then
- thanks God
- thankyou
- that kind / that kind of
- that / than
- that / which
- the proof is in the pudding
- the quick and the dead
- the Ukraine
- their’s
- theirselves
- them
- theory
- therefor / therefore
- there’s
- these are them
- these kind
- these ones
- they / their (singular)
- they’re / their / there
- think on
- this here, that there
- though / thought / through
- threw / through
- throne / thrown
- through a mirror
- throws of passion
- thus far
- thusly
- tic
- timber / timbre
- time period
- times
- times smaller
- tirimisu
- to home
- to the manor born
- to / too / two
- to where
- today’s day and age
- today’s modern society
- toe a fine line
- toe-headed
- token / took / taken
- tolled / told
- tongue and cheek
- torchiere
- tore / torn
- torturous
- touch bases
- touche
- tounge
- tow the line
- toward / towards
- track home
- tradegy
- tragedy / travesty
- transition
- translucent / transparent / opaque
- tremblor
- tripple
- trite and true
- troop / troupe
- trustee / trusty
- try and
- turn into / turn in to
- tussled / tousled
- two to tangle
U
- UFO
- ugly American
- unchartered / uncharted
- unconscience
- under the guise that
- under weigh
- underestimated
- underlining / underlying
- undermind
- undo / undue
- undoubtably
- University of Indiana
- unkept
- unlike
- unpleased
- unrest
- unthaw
- untracked
- upmost
- upto
- urine analysis
- us / we
- use to
- use / usage
- used to could
- utilize / use
V
- vague reference
- vain / vane / vein
- valance / valence
- vapid / vacuous
- various
- vary
- veil of tears
- vendor
- veracious / voracious
- verb tense
- verbage
- verse
- verses / versus
- very sort of, very kind of
- very unique
- vice-like / vise-like
- vice / vise
- vichyssoise
- vicious / viscous circle / cycle
- video / film
- vinegarette / vinaigrette
- vintage point
- viola / voila
- virii
- visually impaired / blind
- vitae
- volumptous
W
- wail / whale
- wait on
- wake
- walk the talk
- wander / wonder
- want that
- warmongerer
- warrantee / warranty
- wary / weary / leery
- was / were
- wash
- waver / waiver
- wax
- way
- ways
- weak / week
- weather forecast for
- weather / wether / whether
- weiner
- wench / winch
- Wensday
- went
- we’re / were
- were / where
- wet your appetite
- whacky / wacky
- what
- wheat
- wheelbarrel
- whenever / when
- where (and prepositions)
- where it’s at
- whereabouts are
- wherefore
- whether
- whilst / while
- whim and a prayer / wing and a prayer
- whimp
- whip cream
- whisky / whiskey
- who / that
- who / whom
- whole-hardily
- who’s / whose
- whosever
- wile away / while away
- -wise
- wit / whit
- within / among
- woman / women
- wonderkind
- wont / won’t
- working progress
- worse comes to worse
- worser
- would have
- wrangle / wangle
- wrapped / rapt
- wreath / wreaths / wreathe / wreathes
- wreckless
- write me
- writting
- WWW
X
Y
- ya’ll
- ye
- yea / yeah / yay
- year end and year out
- ying and yang
- yoke / yolk
- you
- you better
- you can’t have your cake and eat it too
- you know / you know what I’m saying
- you was
- your guys’s
- your / you
- your / you’re
- yourself
- youse
- you’ve got another thing coming