Hear vs. Here – Difference, Examples and Worksheet
Hear, hear is the original and more conventional spelling.
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Bite or Bight – What’s the Difference?
Bite is what you do with your mouth. A bight is a loop in a rope or a bend in a shoreline.
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Freshwater vs. fresh water
The one-word form is an adjective. When it functions as a noun, it’s a two-word phrase.
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Smelled vs. Smelt – Difference & Meaning
Smelled is preferred in North America. It and smelt are both common outside North America.
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Yoghurt or Yogurt – Spelling, Difference & Meaning
yogurt in North America; yoghurt everywhere else.
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Restaurateur vs. restauranteur
Restaurateur is generally considered the only correct spelling.
Hark, harken, and hearken
An old sense of the verb hark (which mainly means to listen) was used in hunting with hounds, where the phrase hark back denoted the act of returning along the course taken to recover a lost scent.1 This is the origin of the modern sense of hark back, which means …
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Your vs. You’re – Usage, Difference & Examples (+ Worksheet)
Your: possessive of you. You’re: contraction of you are.
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Exploitive vs. Exploitative – Definition & Etymology
Exploitative, despite its unwieldiness, is the preferred form.