If you’re one of our regular readers you’ll be familiar with articles on easy-to-confuse words, but every now and then we like to share a recap for our new subscribers. Here is a list of all our Commonly Confused Words articles: A vs. An Accept vs. Except Adverse vs. Averse Affect vs. Effect Air vs. Heir Aisle vs. Isle All together vs. Altogether Allowed vs. Aloud Allude vs. Elude Allusion vs. Illusion Alternate vs. Alternative Are vs. Our vs. Hour Ascent vs. Assent Assume vs. Presume Balmy vs. Barmy Bated vs. Baited Bath vs. Bathe Bear vs. Bare Been vs. Gone Berry vs. Bury Biannual vs. Biennial Biweekly vs...
Accept vs. Except If you accept something you agree to receive or do it. If you except something you exclude it. Bought vs. Brought Brought is the past tense of bring, while bought is the past tense of buy. Cereal vs. Serial Cereal is a type of grain (and a type of breakfast food made from grain), while serial refers to something that occurs in sequence. Desert vs. Dessert Desert can refer to either the act of abandoning someone or something or to an arid stretch of land with little vegetation. A dessert is a sweet course at the end of a meal. Effect vs. Affect An effect is a consequence. If you affect something you make a differen...
Happy New Year, everyone! To help those of you with spelling-related New Year’s resolutions, we’re going to start the year with a series of posts on commonly confused words. Here at Spellzone we believe that looking at the origins of a word can be really beneficial when trying to get your head around its spelling and meaning – and today we’ll start by taking a look at the words ‘accept’ and ‘except’. Make sure you check out our blog archive for previous posts on other commonly confused words. What does each word mean? The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word ‘accept’ as: ‘consent to receive or undertake (s...
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