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less commonly confused words...
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we all know the usual ones that are mistaken - your, you're etc - but this question is not about all those common ones - i was just thinking about the less common ones...
over the last 6 months - year, i have noticed quite a large number of people using wandering instead of wondering, and weary instead of wary...
these are not merely mispellings - they mean different things, so i wonder what the people think when they see the other word written down somewhere...? why do they think this? do they really not know both words...?
one who said weary, was my friend and i was confused by it because it changed the meaning of her comment...basically saying she was tired of someone she had only just met... but when i realised she meant and said it...she wouldnt have it at first...then accepted it... then used it again a few months later
any thoughts?
and have you noticed any less common words that get often mixed up...?
over the last 6 months - year, i have noticed quite a large number of people using wandering instead of wondering, and weary instead of wary...
these are not merely mispellings - they mean different things, so i wonder what the people think when they see the other word written down somewhere...? why do they think this? do they really not know both words...?
one who said weary, was my friend and i was confused by it because it changed the meaning of her comment...basically saying she was tired of someone she had only just met... but when i realised she meant and said it...she wouldnt have it at first...then accepted it... then used it again a few months later
any thoughts?
and have you noticed any less common words that get often mixed up...?
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your descriptions of the two things more or less amounts to the same thing... 2 similar sounding words with different meanings that are mistakenly used in place of each other... hardly 'completely different creatures'
i have also seen people saying 'im board' instead of bored.
your descriptions of the two things more or less amounts to the same thing... 2 similar sounding words with different meanings that are mistakenly used in place of each other... hardly 'completely different creatures'
i have also seen people saying 'im board' instead of bored.
Yes, weary for wary "pacifically" annoys and confuses me too :)
I remember when the media (n, pl) started using "pressurised" which means the opposite of what they use it for. Bet the dictionary's changed it now, easier than tiredly telling people...(hmph)
A relatively recent addition to the list is discrete when they mean discreet. I'm particularly surprised to see this regularly in print now; I think it irritates me because discrete is more of a technical term than everyday speech (I didn't know the word existed until I was doing a Statistics course) so proving that one initial error is copied over and over.
I remember when the media (n, pl) started using "pressurised" which means the opposite of what they use it for. Bet the dictionary's changed it now, easier than tiredly telling people...(hmph)
A relatively recent addition to the list is discrete when they mean discreet. I'm particularly surprised to see this regularly in print now; I think it irritates me because discrete is more of a technical term than everyday speech (I didn't know the word existed until I was doing a Statistics course) so proving that one initial error is copied over and over.
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