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- C’est la vie
- Cabin fever
- Cacao vs. cocoa
- Cache vs cash
- Cache vs. cachet
- Cacti Vs Cactuses – Which Is The Correct Plural Usage
- Caddie vs. caddy
- Caduceus vs staff of Asclepius
- Caesarean section, Caesarian, cesarean, etc.
- Cahoots
- Calendar vs colander
- Caliber vs. calibre
- Calibration vs collaboration
- Call a spade a spade
- Call it a day and call it a night
- Call on the carpet
- Call someone’s bluff
- Call the shots
- Call vs caul
- Callous vs. callus
- Calm before the storm
- Calumny
- Calvary vs. cavalry
- Calves vs. calfs
- Camaraderie vs comradery
- Can goods or canned goods
- Can of worms vs pandora’s box
- Can vs may
- Can’t hold a candle to
- Can’t vs cant
- Canard
- Canary in the coalmine
- Canceled vs. Cancelled – Which Is Correct?
- Candor or candour
- Candy corn
- Cannon fodder
- Cannot or can not
- Canny vs uncanny
- Canon vs. cannon
- Cantankerous
- Cantor vs canter
- Canvas vs. canvass
- Capiche, Capeesh, Capische – Meaning & Usage
- Capital vs. capitol
- Capitulate vs recapitulate
- Capstone, keystone or cornerstone
- Captivate vs capture
- Car park vs parking lot
- Caramel vs carmel
- Carbon copy
- Carbon footprint
- Carburetor vs carburettor
- Card shark vs. card sharp
- Careen vs. career
- Caregiver or caretaker
- Caretaker vs caregiver
- Carnation vs incarnation
- Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore
- Carpe diem
- Carpetbagger
- Carrot, carat, karat, caret
- Carrot-and-stick
- Carry a torch for someone, torch song and torch singer
- Carte blanche
- Carved in stone, set in stone and written in stone
- Case in point
- Cash in one’s chips
- Cash on the nail and cash on the barrelhead
- Cashmere vs Kashmir
- Casket vs coffin
- Cassandra
- Cast a wide net
- Cast aspersions
- Cast the first stone
- Cast-iron stomach
- Caste vs cast
- Casted
- Cat got your tongue?
- Catachresis
- Catalog vs. catalogue
- Catalyse or catalyze
- Catcall
- Catch lightning in a bottle
- Catch some rays
- Catch vs ketch
- Catch-22
- Cattle vs chattel
- Catty-corner, kitty-corner
- Caucus
- Caught in the crosshairs or cross hairs
- Caught red-handed
- Cause celebre
- Cauterize vs cauterise
- Cavalcade
- Cavalier
- Caveat
- Caveat emptor
- Cay, quay and key
- Cede and seed
- Cede vs. concede
- Ceiling vs sealing
- Cel, cell or sell
- Celebrant or celebrator
- Celiac or coeliac
- Cellar vs seller
- Cent, scent and sent
- Center around or center on
- Center vs. Centre
- Centuries
- Cereal vs serial
- Ceremonial vs ceremonious
- Certainty vs. certitude
- Certifiable
- Cession vs. session
- Chafe vs. chaff
- Chai vs chia
- Chain letter
- Chaise lounge and chaise longue
- Chalk up vs. chock
- Champing At The Bit Vs Chomping At The Bit & Meaning
- Change tack
- Chapstick
- Character or caricature
- Charade and charades
- Charism vs charisma
- Charlatan
- Charley horse
- Charnel house
- Chary vs cherry
- Chase one’s own tail
- Chaste vs chased
- Chasten vs. chastise
- Chatbot
- Chatty Cathy
- Chav
- Cheap vs cheep
- Cheapskate
- Check in vs. Check-in (vs. Checkin)
- Check kiting
- Check up vs. checkup
- Check vs. cheque
- Checkered past and chequered past
- Checkout vs. check out
- Cheek by jowl
- Cheek to cheek vs cheek-to-cheek
- Chew someone out
- Chew the fat
- Chews vs choose
- Chic vs. sheik
- Chicanery
- Chick flick and chick lit
- Chicken and egg situation
- Chickens come home to roost
- Childcare, child care, child-care
- Childish vs. childlike
- Chili vs Chilly – What’s the Difference?
- Chills down the spine
- Chink vs. kink
- Chinwag
- Chip on your shoulder
- Chips vs. fries
- Choate or inchoate
- Chock-a-block vs chockablock
- Chock-full
- Chopper vs. copter
- Chorale, choral or corral
- Chortle
- Chose vs. Choose – Usage With Examples
- Chow vs ciao
- Christmas Adam
- Chump change
- Chunder or chunter
- Chute vs. shoot
- Cinch the deal or clinch the deal
- Cisgender vs transgender
- Cistern vs sister
- Civic vs. civil
- Civil rights and human rights
- Civilise vs. civilize
- Clam up
- Clamor vs clamber
- Claptrap
- Classic vs. classical
- Clause vs claws
- Clauses
- Clean someone’s clock
- Clean vs. cleanse
- Cleanliness is next to godliness
- Cleanup vs. clean up
- Cleave
- Clef vs cliff
- Clench vs. clinch
- Clew vs clue
- Click vs clique
- Clickbait
- Client vs. customer
- Cliffhanger
- Cliffs Notes
- Climactic vs. climatic
- Clime vs climb
- Cloak-and-dagger
- Close proximity
- Close ranks
- Close rhyme
- Close shave
- Close vs close
- Close vs clothes
- Close-knit and tight-knit
- Close-minded vs. closed-minded
- Closer vs closure
- Cloth vs clothes
- Cloture vs closure
- Cloying and mawkish
- Co-op vs. co-opt
- Co-ordinate vs coordinate
- Coal, cole or kohl
- Coarse vs. course
- Coast is clear
- Cock and bull story
- Cockamamie
- Coddle and mollycoddle
- Coddle vs caudle
- Coffice
- Cognate and false cognate
- Coiffure vs coiffeur
- Coin a phrase
- Cold feet
- Cold shoulder
- Cold turkey
- Cold-call
- Coliseum vs. colosseum
- Collaborate vs corroborate
- Collectible vs collectable
- Collective nouns
- College vs. university
- Collegial vs. collegiate
- Collision vs collusion
- Collocate vs colocate
- Colonize vs colonise
- Color outside the lines
- Color vs. colour
- Coma vs comma
- Comb-over
- Combine vs combine
- Come hell or high water
- Come over vs overcome
- Come what may
- Come-hither look
- Come-to-Jesus moment and come-to-Jesus meeting
- Comedienne
- Comeuppance
- Comic vs. comical
- Coming of age
- Comity vs comedy
- Comma Rules and Usage With Examples
- Comme ci, comme ça
- Commencement
- Commend vs command
- Commentator vs. commenter
- Commiserate vs commensurate
- Common French expressions
- Compact vs compact
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Compared to or compared with
- Comparing apples and oranges
- Compel vs. impel
- Competence and competency
- Complacent vs complicit
- Complacent vs. complaisant
- Complement vs. compliment
- Compose vs. comprise
- Compound vs compound
- Compress vs compress
- Comprise vs compromise
- Compunction vs compulsion
- Computerize or computerise
- Concave vs. convex
- Conceded or conceited
- Conceive vs. perceive
- Concerning
- Concerted
- Conches vs. conchs
- Concurrent vs consecutive
- Condemn vs. condone
- Conduct vs conduct
- Confidant vs. confidante
- Confident vs confidant/confidante
- Confirmation bias
- Conflate vs conflagrate
- Conflict of interest
- Confusables
- Conjunctions
- Conjunctions to start sentences
- Conker vs conquer
- Connect the dots and join the dots
- Connexion
- Connive vs contrive
- Connote vs. denote
- Conscience, conscious and self-conscious
- Conservatory, solarium or sunroom
- Consolation vs constellation
- Console vs console
- Conspiracy or collusion
- Constant vs consistent
- Construct vs construct
- Consultative
- Contaminate vs contaminant
- Contemporaneous vs. contemporary
- Contemptible vs. contemptuous
- Content or contented
- Content vs content
- Contentious vs conscientious
- Contest vs contest
- Contiguous vs continuous
- Continental breakfast
- Contingency vs contingent
- Continual vs. continuous
- Contractions
- Contraption
- Contravene vs contradict
- Contumely
- Conundrum
- Conversate
- Convict vs convict
- Convivial vs congenial
- Convocation, commencement or invocation
- Cooking the books
- Cool one’s heels
- Cooler heads prevail
- Coon’s age
- Coop, coup or coupe
- Cooperate vs. co-operate
- Coordinate adjectives
- Coordinate and cumulative adjectives
- Cooties
- Copacetic or copasetic
- Copse vs cops
- Copyright vs. copywrite
- Coral vs. corral
- Cord vs. chord
- Core, corps and corpse
- Cornball and corny
- Cornet vs. coronet
- Corollary vs. correlation
- Correspondence vs correspondents
- Corroborate vs cooperate
- Cosmetology vs. cosmology
- Cosplay
- Cosset vs corset
- Cosy vs. cozy
- Cottage industry
- Cotton candy or cotton floss or fairy floss
- Could care less
- Council vs. counsel
- Counsel vs consul
- Counselor vs. Counsellor
- Country mile
- Coup d’état
- Coup de grace
- Coups vs coos
- Court disaster
- Cover all the bases
- Covert vs overt
- Covet vs covert
- Coward vs cowered
- Crack down vs. crackdown
- Crack the whip
- Crackerjack
- Crap
- Crapshoot
- Crave vs craven
- Crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, etc.
- Crayon vs Crayola
- Cream of the crop
- Creature comfort
- Credible vs. credulous
- Credible, creditable or credulous
- Creek vs creak
- Creeped vs. crept
- Crevasse vs. crevice
- Crewel vs cruel
- Crews vs cruise
- Crick (variant of creek)
- Crier vs. cryer
- Crime doesn’t pay
- Crisis of conscience vs crisis of confidence
- Criteria, criterion
- Crooked vs crooked
- Cross the line
- Cross the Rubicon
- Cross vs crucifix
- Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding
- Croze vs crows
- Cruciferous
- Crueler or crueller, cruelest or cruellest
- Crumby vs. crummy
- Cry all the way to the bank
- Cry over spilled milk and cry over spilt milk
- Cryptid
- Crèche and manger
- Crème de la crème
- Cul-de-sac
- Culpable vs liable
- Cum
- Curate’s egg
- Curb vs. kerb
- Curds and whey
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Curl one’s hair
- Curmudgeon
- Currant vs current
- Currently
- Curricula vs curriculums
- Curry favor
- Cursory vs curse
- Curtsy vs courtesy
- Custom vs costume
- Customise vs. Customize
- Cut and dried
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
- Cut one’s losses
- Cut the Mustard – Meaning and Origin
- Cut to the chase
- Cut to the quick
- Cut-throat
- Cute as a button
- Cybersquatting
- Cyclist vs. biker
- Cynical
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- A chip off the old block
- A cog in the wheel and a cog in the machine
- Apprehend vs comprehend
- Draughts and checkers
- Duly vs dully
- Erratum, addendum and corrigendum
- Fusion vs confusion
- Good enough for government work and close enough for government work
- Grasping at straws or clutching at straws
- Head someone off at the pass and cut someone off at the pass
- Horn of plenty and cornucopia
- How and When to Use a Colon (With Examples)
- How to Use Cannot See the Forest for the Trees Correctly
- How to Use Cue vs. Queue Correctly
- Idiom vs colloquialism
- Infectious vs contagious
- Is Costed a Word? What is the Past Tense of Cost?
- It’s curtains for you
- Jump or climb on the bandwagon
- Keep your chin up
- Kernel vs colonel
- Long johns vs union suit and combination suit
- Make a clean breast of it and come clean
- Old chestnut
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Plaintiff vs defendant
- Prank call or crank call
- Quaff vs coif
- Qualm vs calm
- Quire vs choir
- Reindeer or caribou
- Ride on someone’s coattails and coattail effect
- Ride shotgun and call shotgun
- Senses vs census
- Sepulcher, crypt, catacomb or mausoleum
- Shill vs chill
- Shut or close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- Signet vs cygnet
- Since, sense and cense
- Site vs cite
- Spoopy and creppy
- Summa cum laude or magna cum laude
- Symbol vs cymbal
- Synonym vs cinnamon
- Take a bath
- Talk a blue streak and curse a blue streak
- The clock is ticking
- The customer is always right
- Thumb one’s nose and cock a snook
- To cry wolf
- To hear crickets
- Xmas
- You can’t fight city hall
