Affect and Effect
Affect is to influence – Effect is a result
The weather affected my plans and therefore, the effect was disappointing.
Moot and Mute
Moot – as in ‘The argument is moot’ means it is up for debate or dispute, it is uncertain.
Mute is to stop sound, muffle – or someone that is unable to speak.
The argument is still moot and therefore, ongoing because someone pressed the ‘Mute’ button on the television just as the relevant facts were announced, leaving the poor newsreader as if she was a mute.
Peek, Peak and Pique
In order:
To look at, or ‘sneak a peek’, the top of something - ‘mountain peak’ or peak of physical fittness and to ‘pique your interest’ is to excite you about something.
He took a sneaky peek through the window when he should have been concentrating. The view of the mountain peaks and the storm rolling over them piqued his interest and the lecture was forgotten.
Flout and Flaunt
These words are entirely different. If someone ‘flouts the law’ they are in complete disregard for the law. If they then go on to ‘flaunt’ that fact, they are deliberately drawing attention to it.
They flout the law and then flaunt the fact and were surprised when they were arrested.
This one is ‘flout’
Pour and Pore
To pour is to empty a liquid out of a bottle. ‘To pore’ is to examine or study closely and a pore is a minute opening in a surface (often skin).
He poured the milk onto his breakfast, then he pored over the newspaper article of a study on the skin’s pores.
After perusing Facebook where it would appear there’s a competition to see who can reverse human evolution furthest and fastest, I saw these ‘gems’.
‘In the spare of the moment’ – Surely you mean ‘spur’?
An opinion on a serious crime where a Shetland pony was brutally slain:
(Yes, this was a direct quote… stunning, isn’t it?)
Bet it muslin killing . every muslin teenager must kill a animal to prove they are a man to god . cat ,dogs sheep, camels cows pony's . As long as its a clean throat .if it`s been stab all over its body ,then it just a sick cunt that need a brick to his head
Why on earth does only one of those words ‘deserve’ an apostrophe and if it deserved an apostrophe, shouldn’t it at least be spelled correctly?
Every plural ending in S on Facebook seems to need an erroneous apostrophe. Dog’s, kid’s, car’s pony’s and yet, if it actually warrants an apostrophe, we get… tumbleweed.
I’ve given up on editing Facebook. The pay is rubbish and the clients don’t appreciate me ;)
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I've seen gems at work such as 'bare in mind'. People don't seem to care much about getting things right. The English language is complex and fascinating. I'd hate to see it descend into text-speak. e.g. U R rite
I agree. It's laziness, pure and simple.
As a writer I use a long list to recheck my work before I give it to my editor, and he still finds things. So, good job, Now following you, if you follow back, be easy on me, lol I type fast on quick post,
Hi, pleased to meet you. I'll certainly follow you back and I only give advice if asked.
So, unless you're asking me to go over your posts, you're safe :)
There is also
yourandyou're.Youris a possessive word as inyour postversusyou'rewhich is short foryou are.Yes, there are plenty more to choose from. I'm hoping to continue this as a series (in between work of course).
Is it laziness or is it a result of a haphazard education? Thank goodness I went through the education before such things as "whole language" and "new math". That's why there are college graduates who can not spell or do simple arithmetic without the aid of a calculator.
Very true.
My brother, two years younger than me, was a victim of the 'phonetic' experiment. Spell it as it sounds - he could never spell worth a damn.
Neither can 85% of the rest of the world. It is a tragic loss...
@steemitwrite! so glad to read this! it is so important to remind yourself about correct grammar on a regular basis!! :)
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