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Monday, September 28, 2009

Pet Peeves, Added to

None of the following words are interchangeable.

suppository/supposedly (seen on forum today)

 also/instead of (a person very close to me uses also every time that they mean "or", or "instead of")

even/evening (seen on FB, today)

 These two sets of words are the most often misused.

accept/except
accept means to take or receive something offered.


except means to with the exclusion of

effect/affect
effect means something that is the result of something
affect means to produce a change in

threw/through
threw is to throw
through is in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other

2 comments:

Heather and Stephen said...

and "thru" is as in drive thru! :)

40winkzzz said...

i have a really hard time believing that people would suppository get some of these words mixed up.

actually, i do believe it because i, too, have seen it far too often. but "suppository" for "supposedly"? i would be spewing my coffee all over the keyboard.