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- A and an
- Advice and advise
- Adviser or advisor?
- Affect and effect
- All ready and already
- Although and though
- altogether and all together
- And or & – word or ampersand?
- Any more or anymore?
- Appendix and appendum
- Appraise and apprise
- Around and round
- Assure, ensure and insure
- Biannual, biennal and bimonthly
- But and however
- Careen and career
- Chair, chairman or chairperson
- Compared with and compared to
- Complement and compliment
- Compound nouns
- Continually and continuously
- Coordinate or co-ordinate?
- Decision-making or decision making?
- Dependent and dependant
- Deprecate and depreciate
- Desert and dessert
- Different from, different than or different to?
- Discreet and discrete
- Disinterested and uninterested
- Disorganised and unorganised
- E-words
- Either/or and neither/nor
- Elicit and illicit
- Eminent and imminent
- Empathetic and empathic
- Farther and further
- Fewer and less
- Flammable and inflammable
- Flaunted and flouted
- Focused or focussed?
- For fun – a palindrome
- Forums or fora?
- Got, but, that and which
- Hated words
- Homed and honed
- However
- Imply and infer
- Inauthentic and unauthentic
- Incidence and incident
- indigenous or Indigenous?
- Inquire and enquire
- Insidious and invidious
- Lead and led
- Learned or learnt?
- Lodgement or lodgment, judgement or judgment
- Loose and lose
- Monies or moneys?
- More than and over
- Nauseous and nauseated
- Not only … but also
- Persons and people
- Plural of status
- Practical and practicable
- Practice and practise
- Premise or premises
- Principal and principle
- Proportional and proportionate
- Seating or sitting arrangements
- Series – singular and plural
- Shall
- Some time or sometime?
- Staff or staffs?
- Than and then
- That – is it necessary in a sentence?
- The confusing nature of the English language
- There, they’re, their
- Titled or entitled?
- Toward and towards
- Unchartered and uncharted
- What and which
- Whatever
- Which and that
- While or whilst?
- Who and that
- Who and whom
- Will and won’t
- Word teasers
- ‘Used to do’ and ‘be used to’
