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Word Confusion: Hoard versus Horde
by Kathy Davie I guess it was the influence of all those pirate movies I watched, and the books I read as a kid, ’cause when authors confuse this one, well, it always cracks me up! I mean, it just … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Lay versus Lie
by Kathy Davie Image courtesy of Allison VanNest at Ragan.com This one confuses the heck out of me, and I’m constantly referring back to this entry in the Word Confusions. Ahem, anyone with more examples that would make things even … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Gait versus Gate
by Kathy Davie I can never figure out if I’m in some animated cartoon or what when I run across a character who has a limping gate. It’d be fun to see what Roald Dahl or R.L. Stine might do … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Knows vs. Noes vs. Nose
by Kathy Davie This one, er, three, was simply fun! It’s the nose that knows how to spout those noes! Okay, so I’ll never make it as a comic…LOL… What’s truly embarrassing is how often I have come across a … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Fact versus Factoid
by Kathy Davie Image courtesy of Jason Robert Johnson at Brainskewer Ooopsies…I have to confess I thought this was “a small fact”. I suppose I could, ahem, explain it away by, um, thinking of it as a small-small fact. So … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Gorilla versus Guerrilla
by Kathy Davie Image courtesy of Guerrilla Art This is another of those word confusions I don’t come across too often, but when I do, it’s definitely sigh-worthy. Although, maybe the author is confusing the hairy, unwashed aspects of guerrillas … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Angel versus Angle
It’s just two letters transposed that can completely change the meaning of your sentence—or make you look like an idiot! The best suggestion I can offer up to help when you’re “editing on the run” is to keep in mind … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Altar versus Alter
by Kathy Davie Don’t alter that altar! You never know if the ancestors will get upset! Almost as upset as an editor might get if you confuse these two words…*grin*…! Seriously though, there is a big difference between an altar … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Gage versus Gauge
by Kathy Davie Yet another word I thought I knew…sigh… Of course, in my defense, I’ve only ever seen gage used in medieval histories when a knight would thrown down his gage as an insult to another, demanding the person … Continue reading
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Word Confusion: Fewer versus Less
by Kathy Davie Image courtesy of the Language Log It’s a question of count versus mass. If you can count how many—vacuum cleaners, apples, werewolves, quilts, etc.—it’s a countable noun. Looking at bolts of fabric at a fabric store, at … Continue reading
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