Top 10 Pairs of Words People Get Confused With
The Top Ten
1 As and Like
2 Assent and Ascent
3 Straight and Strait
4 Taut and Taught
5 Supposedly and Supposably
6 There and Their
7 They're and There
People confuse these all the time!
8 Their and They're
9 Ascetic and Aescetic
10 Your and You're
The Contenders
11 To and Too
12 Affect and Effect
13 Principle and Principal
14 Brought and Bought
15 Climactic and Climatic
16 Meter and Metre
17 Specific and Pacific
True story. Whilst having dinner one evening (with guests, I have to add), my brother stood up from the table and announced to a stunned audience that he was going to the toilet "pacifically for a s***" I corrected him on his grammar saying that the word is "specifically" not "pacifically" he shrugged and told me that he had in fact used the proper word. "A s*** is a drop in the ocean, ain't it? " Everyone around the table (including myself) erupted with laughter.
18 Astronomy and Astrology
19 Immigration and Emigration
20 Accept and Except
21 Wreath and Wreathe
22 Penis and Pianist
23 Stationary and Stationery
24 Controversial and Contraception
Oh dear, this one's controversial in itself...
25 But and Butt
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