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People send me quite a few word confusions which don’t seem worth writing up but which are nevertheless entertaining or interesting. I simply list a number of these below for your amusement.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for below, please be aware that this is only a supplementary page to a much more extensive list.
| What was said |
What was meant |
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a stigmatism
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astigmatism
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abolishment
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abolition
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abraded
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upbraided
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| acrosst | across |
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ad homonym
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ad hominem
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| aerobic numbers | Arabic numbers |
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affidavid
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affidavit
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all goes well
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augurs well
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all of the sudden
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all of a sudden
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| alphabeticalize | alphabetize |
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altercations
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alterations
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alterior
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ulterior
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anachronism
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acronym
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ambliance
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ambulance
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| anticlimatic |
anticlimactic |
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anchors away
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anchors aweigh
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antivenom
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antivenin
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aperpo
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à propos
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apples and organs
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apples and oranges
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arm’s way
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harm’s way
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artical
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article
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as a pose to
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as opposed to
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| ashfault | asphalt |
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assessible
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accessible
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assumably
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presumably
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at leased
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at least
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authoritarian source
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authoritative source
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back round
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background
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balling out
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bawling out
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