I am a bad speller. It has been mentioned here before and will probably be mentioned here again. I am a horrible speller - yet, on my tax returns my occupation is “writer”. How can this be? Well thanks to technology I am no longer “spelling impaired”.
For those of you out there that find yourself in the same borat boat as me, one neat tool to check for mistakes is SpellJax.
I am far from being your perfect example of a writer. I love to write but I am a horrible speller. I don’t think that a misuse many words, but I could be wrong. Just in case, I found this interesting list of common words that often get people confused.
core/corps/corpse
Apples have cores. A corps is an organization, like the Peace Corps. A corpse is a dead body, a carcass.
You Can’t Eat Your Cake and Have it Too
The original and only sensible version of this saying is “You can’t eat your cake and have it too,” meaning that if you eat your cake you won’t have it any more. People get confused because we use the expression “have some cake” to mean “eat some cake,” and they therefore misunderstand what “have” means in this expression.
breath/breathe
When you need to breathe, you take a breath. “Breathe” is the verb, “breath” the noun.
Frankenstein
“Frankenstein” is the name of the scientist who creates the monster in Mary Shelley’s novel. The monster itself has no name, but is referred to popularly as “Frankenstein’s monster.”
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