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Sounds Like : Grammar and Spelling Tips

Sometimes a word sounds as though it contains another familiar word:


• There is no cocoa in a coconut.


• Bated breath has nothing to do with bait.


• Corridor is not related to door.


• Sacrilege has the i first and the e second, unlike religion.


• Abseiling is quite different from sailing.


Sometimes it is just part of another word that causes a mistake:


• Privilege has no d, unlike, e.g., knowledge.


• Attach and detach end in -ach, not -atch, unlike dispatch.


• A protuberance is something that protrudes; but it has no r after the t.


• Dissect has a double s, though bisect has only one.


• Psychedelic has an e after psych, unlike psychology.

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