Chose - Choose
Then - Than
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Not really a pair, but the misuse of "myself" when "me" is correct runs rampant in the world. The easy way I remember the correct way to use either one is this: mentally strip away everything but the subject and the verb and use "myself" and then "me" in the sentence or phrase in question - usually the absurdity of the "myself" usage punches you in the nose.
Example from a story on Lush (not picking on anyone, there's plenty everywhere...):
"This story was co-written by X and myself....
That is an incorrect usage of "myself". Most people only get into this pickle when they use "myself" in this kind of tandem pairing - "X and myself".
Strip it down to this: "This story was written by myself" - that should immediately just sound and look wrong to you. The story was written by me.
Try it and see if it helps!
Best of all would be to throw the passive voice under the bus and write it this way: X and I wrote this story. Shorter. Punchier.
I agree - eating dessert in the desert is great!
And re my immediate prior post - best of all would be to throw the passive voice under the bus and write it this way: X and I wrote this story. Shorter. Punchier.
Maybe Lush could start a competition for a story in which you must correctly use all of the listed commonly misused words AND make it hot...grammarians around the world would have an excuse to get off again, and again, and again.
Pail - Pale
and not the whitish color. The frequent misuse is in the phrase "beyond the pale" (correct) - "beyond the pail" (incorrect - that's just the other side of a bucket).
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How about "Hare" and "Hair" and "Bear" and "Bare"
This would not be a good sentence in a sex story..."She shaved her hare until she was bear down there."
Not very sexy...
So, is the tv show called Loose Women? Is there one called "Lose Women?" hellllllp!
Your and you're -- seems that "your" minus the apostrophe is ubiquitous these days.
And, though and although.
I just read a word I've never heard.
"mephitic" Adjective: (esp. of a gas or vapor) Foul-smelling; noxious. It's not on Lush, it's on another site and the author is using clinic terms for every body part and function. It's a tad jarring, "meatus," "emission," "frenulum," so on. I like to use some of those words but all and only them is jarring. Funny.
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'll find a few minutes to update the list...someday!
grisly/grizzly
obtuse/abstruse
to/too
we're/were
bare/bear - it always makes me giggle when i see "please bare with us"
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Why not read some stories instead
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Learn - Teach -
I've heard "I'll learn you about it" many times, it drives me crazy !
(Oh, and I forgot to add - the person above me - of course I would !! x)
Flout / Flaunt
This one was misused on the Egypt news coverage just last night on NBC.
And that perennially troublesome threesome (wait...sounds like fun!) -
Lying - Laying - Lieing
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How about "Pole" and "Poll"...
Me being a Pole, should take a poll about who wants to climb my pole...or something like that...
I'm not sure if this qualifies or not, but I've seen this odd phonetic swap quite a few times:
wants/once
Also:
quiet/quite comes to mind if it hasn't already been mentioned.
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It's amazing how many of my students write layed when they mean lay or lain. Then the look on their faces when I tell them 'layed' doesn't even exist.
Born and borne is one I see a lot. Oh allot and a lot - there's another one! Ha ha
Censored and censured
Practice and practise
Present or Presant ha ha
sentance or sentence LOL
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