Divorcée, divorcé, divorcee
Divorcée = female. Divorcé = male. Divorcee = gender-neutral anglicization.
Deconstruction
It was originally a literary-criticism term, but it’s now widely used in a range of other senses.
Dove vs. dived
Dived remains the preferred form outside North America. Americans and Canadians now prefer the newer form, dove.
Danglers
A dangler (also known as a dangling modifier or dangling participle) is a sentence element—usually a participle or a phrase anchored by one—that doesn’t relate syntactically to the noun it’s intended to modify. In other words, when a modifier doesn’t appear where it’s logically supposed to be, it’s a dangler—for example: Leaving home, the weather was sunny and crisp. Here, because the introductory modifying phrase leaving home immediately precedes the subject the weather, this sentence is constructed as if to state …
Directional words
-ward vs. -wards In American English, the preferred suffix is -ward—for example, westward, forward, backward, downward. Outside American English, -wards is preferred—so, westwards, forwards, backwards, and downwards. But it’s not a clean distinction, and both suffixes are used everywhere. The -ward suffix may be placed at the end of any noun without requiring a hyphen. Spell check may catch words like cityward, mountainward, oceanward, or workward, but that shouldn’t stop us from using them. Adjectives and adverbs Words ending in -ward and -wards can …