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Spellzone July Round-Up

  The English language is constantly evolving in creative ways and this has always been the case. This month we started a new blog feature on slang words and their plain English meanings. Our first post in this new series looks at Cockney rhyming slang.    We returned to our Commonly Confused Words series with a very similar-sounding pair of words—allusion and illusion. Do you know when to use which word? Visit the blog for memory devices to help you tell them apart.   For our Idioms article we looked at figurative expressions about fruit.   We continued with the fruit theme in July’s Word for Wednesday posts. Did you know the word ...

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Commonly Confused Words: Allusion vs. Illusion

What does each word mean? An allusion is a passing and indirect reference to something.  Click here for the full Spellzone dictionary definition of the word. Here is allusion used in some example sentences: The film was full of allusions to Shakespeare’s plays.  The teacher made allusions to other works of poetry in his lesson. An illusion is an erroneous mental representation—when someone misinterprets something that they’ve seen or believes they have seen something that is not there. Click here for the full Spellzone dictionary definition of the word.  Here is illusion used in some example sente...

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