English is a worldwide language. Between 1.5 billion and 2 billion people across the planet speak English. Between 375,000,000 and 400,000,000 people are native English speakers. In view of these statistics, many consider the English language to be a world language. Since the English language has become so widespread, it is no surprise that different varieties of English have arisen.
There are many varieties of English spoken in the world. The oldest variety of English is British English, spoken in the United Kingdom. Approximately 60 million people are native British English speakers. The variety of English with the largest number of native speakers is American English, with 225 million native speakers.
The other major varieties of English are Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English and Indian English. Some linguists also recognize another classification of a variety of English known as World English.
All varieties of English share the same basic tenets of the language, but certain words, phrases or linguistic constructs may differ. For instance, in British English, one says I’m going to hospital. In American English one says I’m going to the hospital. In British English one may say he is going to the cinema, in American English one says he is going to the movies, and in South African English, the phrase is going to the bioscope.
Varieties of English may be further divided into dialects such as Anglo-Cornish or Welsh English in Great Britain, Gallah or Gulf Southern in the United States and Bengali English and Southern Indian English in India. Whatever the variety or dialect, English speakers the world over may communicate with each other, with only occasional gaps in understanding.
A
- Abandon vs. abandonment
- Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms
- Abbreviation Punctuation
- Abdicate, abnegate, abrogate
- Abecedarius
- Abetter vs. abettor
- Abhorrent vs aberrant
- Abided vs. abode
- Ability vs. capability vs. capacity
- Abject or object
- Abject vs object
- Abjure vs. adjure
- Abolishment vs. abolition
- Aborted vs. abortive
- About-face
- Above Board, Above-Board or Aboveboard
- Above one’s pay grade
- Abracadabra – Usage, Origin & Meaning
- Abridgment and abridgement
- Absolve vs resolve
- Abstracter vs. abstractor
- Abstruse vs. obtuse
- Abuse vs abuse
- Acapella or A Cappella – Definition and Correct Spelling
- Accell
- Accent vs accentuate
- Acceptance vs. acceptation
- Accept vs Except
- Access
- Accessorize or Accessorise – Meaning & Spelling
- Accessory vs accessary
- Access vs excess
- Accidental vs incidental
- Accidental vs occidental
- Acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize
- Acclimation vs acclamation
- According to Hoyle or According to Cocker – Origin & Meaning
- Accord vs. accordance
- Accost
- Accoutrement
- Acephalous
- Ace in the Hole – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Achilles’ heel
- Acid Test vs. Litmus Test – Idiom & Meaning
- Acknowledgement vs. Acknowledgment – Uses and Examples
- Acme vs acne
- Acronym vs anacronym
- Across the Board – Origin & Meaning
- Action Speak Louder Than Words – Meaning & Examples
- Actualise vs actualize
- Adamance
- Adam’s off ox
- Adaptable or adaptive
- Adapter vs. adaptor
- Adaption vs. Adaptation – What’s the Difference?
- Adapt vs adopt
- Addenda vs. Addendums – What’s the Difference?
- Addicting vs. addictive
- Addition vs. edition
- Addlepated, addlebrained and addleheaded
- Adduce vs educe
- Add fuel to the fire
- Add Insult to Injury – Origin & Meaning
- Adjectives and Adverbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Adjectives and Adverbs – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- Adjectives: Definition, Types, Examples and Quizzes
- Adjudicate
- Administrate
- Admittance vs. Admission – Difference & Definition
- Adolescence vs adolescents
- Adopted vs. adoptive
- Ads, adds or adze
- Advance vs. advanced
- Advent
- Adventurous vs adventuresome
- Adverbs of Frequency – Rules, List of Examples & Worksheet
- Adverse vs. Averse – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Advertise vs advertize
- Advert vs. avert
- Advice vs. Advise – Meaning, Spelling & Examples
- Adviser vs. Advisor – Which Is Correct?
- Ad hoc
- Ad Hominem Fallacy Examples and Definition
- Ad Nauseam – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Ad vs. add
- Ad-lib and ad lib
- Aegis
- Aeon vs. eon
- Aerie vs airy
- Aerobic vs anaerobic
- Aeroplane vs. airplane
- Aesthetic vs. ascetic
- Aether vs. ether
- Aetiology or etiology
- Affective vs. effective
- Affect vs. Effect – What’s the Difference?
- Affinity vs infinity
- Afflict vs. inflict
- Affluent vs. effluent
- Affluenza
- African-American vs. black
- Afterward vs. afterwards
- Afterward vs. afterword
- Agape vs agape
- Ageing vs. Aging – Which Is Correct?
- Agent and recipient nouns
- Aggrandize
- Aggravate vs aggregate
- Aggravate vs mitigate
- Aggravate – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Aggression vs. aggressiveness
- Agitprop
- Agnostic vs. Atheist – What’s the Difference?
- Agog or agape
- Agree
- Agreement vs. Agreeance – Which Is Correct?
- Ahead of the Curve or Ahead of the Curb – Origin & Meaning
- Ahold
- Aid vs. Aide – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Ailment vs aliment
- Ail vs ale
- Ain’t
- Air quotes
- Air vs err
- Air vs heir
- Akimbo
- Alas or But Alas – Usage, Punctuation & Meaning
- Albatross Around My Neck – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Albeit
- Alcoholism vs dipsomania
- Algorithm vs logarithm
- Alight
- Allegation vs accusation
- Alleviate vs elevate
- Alley vs ally
- Alligator vs. crocodile
- Alliterate, literate or illiterate
- Alliteration vs assonance
- Allude vs elude
- Allude vs. elude
- Allusion vs. elusion vs. illusion
- Allusive, elusive or illusive
- All American or all-American
- All Bark No Bite – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- All but
- All but vs anything but vs everything but
- All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go – Origin & Meaning
- All get-out
- All good things must come to an end
- All Hands on Deck – Origin & Meaning
- All in all
- All of the Sudden vs All of a Sudden – Which is Correct?
- All Ready vs. Already – Meaning, Definition & Spelling
- All right vs. alright
- All Roads Lead to Rome – Origin & Meaning
- All sizzle and no steak
- All Systems Go – Origin & Meaning
- All that
- All that glitters is not gold
- All together vs. altogether
- All’s fair in love and war
- All’s Well That Ends Well – Meaning & Expansion of Idea
- All-around, all-round
- Alma Mater – Meaning, Spelling & Capitalization
- Aloud vs allowed
- Alphabetic vs. alphabetical
- Also-ran
- Altar vs. alter
- Alternately vs alternatively
- Alternate vs alternate
- Alternate vs. alternative
- Alter ego
- Although vs. though
- Aluminium vs. aluminum
- Alumna, Alumnae, Alumni, Alumnus – What’s the Difference?
- Alum vs alum
- Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- Always vs all ways
- Amalgam vs. amalgamation
- Amative or amatory
- Amazeballs
- AMBER alert
- Amber vs ember
- Ambiance vs. ambience
- Ambiguous vs ambivalent
- Ambulance chaser
- Ameliorate vs alleviate
- Amends vs amends
- Amend vs. emend
- America
- American
- American Indian vs Native American
- Amiable vs amicable
- Amiable vs. amicable
- Amok vs. amuck
- Among vs. Amongst – Difference, Usage & Examples
- Among vs. Between – When to Use Each
- Amoral vs. Immoral – What’s the Difference?
- Amount vs. number
- Amphitheater vs amphitheatre
- Amuse vs. bemuse
- Anachronism
- Analogue vs. analogy
- Analogy vs allegory
- Analog vs. analogue
- Analyses vs analyzes
- Analyse vs. Analyze – Difference & Meaning
- Anamorphic
- Anapest
- Anathema
- Ancillary vs auxiliary
- And yet
- Anecdote vs antidote
- Anemic or anaemic
- Anesthesia vs anaesthesia
- Angel vs. Angle – How to Remember the Difference
- Angle Bracket Symbol
- Animal Adjectives – Complete List
- Animal collective nouns
- Animate vs adamant
- Annal vs annual
- Annex vs. annexe
- Annual, perennial or biennial
- Anodyne vs analgesic
- Anomalous vs anonymous
- Another string in your bow
- Another think coming
- Antediluvian
- Antennae vs. antennas
- Ante- vs anti-
- Antichrist
- Antifa
- Antimacassar
- Antonyms
- Anyday vs any day
- Anymore or any more
- Anyone vs. Any One – Usage & Difference
- Anyplace or Any Place – Which is Correct?
- Anytime vs. Any Time – Difference, Usage & Examples
- Anyway vs. anyways
- An Arm and a Leg – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- An Englishman’s home is his castle.
- An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
- An historic
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
- Apartment vs. Flat – What’s the Difference?
- Apart vs. A Part – Usage, Difference & Definition
- Apiary vs aviary
- Apologetics
- Apologise vs. apologize
- Apoplectic vs apocalyptic
- Apostle
- Apostrophes Before S – Rules and Examples
- Apostrophes With Names Ending in S
- Apostrophe After S – Rules and Examples
- Apostrophe Rules and Punctuation Guide With Examples
- Apostrophe (poetry)
- Apotheosis
- Appal vs. appall
- Appeal to Authority Fallacy – Definition & Examples
- Appellation vs appellative
- Append vs. Upend
- Appetizer or hors d’oeuvre
- Appetizer vs appetiser
- Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree – Origin & Meaning
- Apple of My Eye – The One Cherished Above All Others
- Apple-pie order
- Apple-Polish – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Apposite vs opposite
- Appositive Phrases and How to Use Them in a Sentence
- Appraise vs. apprise
- Apprehend vs apprehensive
- Apprehend vs comprehend
- Apprehensive vs reprehensive
- Approbation vs approval
- Approbation vs opprobrium
- Appropriate vs appropriate
- Appropriate vs. expropriate
- April Fool’s or April Fools’
- Apropos
- Arbor or arbour
- Arcane and obsolete
- Archaeology vs. archeology
- Arctic, Antarctic
- Arc vs arch
- Arc vs ark
- Ardor or ardour
- Are Seasons Capitalized? Examples in a Sentence
- Argot vs ergot
- Argumentative vs. Argumentive – What’s the Difference?
- Arise or rise
- Armor vs. armour
- Around the clock, round the clock
- Around vs. round
- Arouse vs. rouse
- Arrant vs. errant
- Arse vs. Ass – What’s the Difference?
- Artefact vs. artifact
- Artesian vs artisan
- Articulate vs articulate
- ASAP
- Ascared – Meaning and Usage
- Ascent, ascendance, ascendancy, etc.
- Ascribe vs attribute
- Ascribe vs subscribe
- Askew vs eschew
- Asking For a Friend – Origin & Meaning
- Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies
- Asleep at the Wheel or Asleep at the Switch – Idiom & Meaning
- Aspiration vs inspiration
- Aspire vs inspire
- Assail vs. assault
- Assignation or assignment
- Assure, ensure, insure
- Asterisk Symbol (*) – Usage and Examples
- Astrology vs astronomy
- Asylum
- As crook as Rookwood
- As Far As – Meaning & Examples
- As per
- As pleased as Punch
- As the Crow Flies – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- As Thick As Thieves – Meaning & Origin
- As vs. Like – Difference & Examples
- As yet, as of yet
- Ate vs. Eight – Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
- Atlas
- Attache
- Attain vs. obtain
- Attic vs addict
- Attribute vs attribute
- At All Costs or At Any Cost – Idiom & Meaning
- At a loose end
- At Face Value – A Blind Belief Or Unquestioned Acceptance?
- At loggerheads
- At Sixes and Sevens – Origin & Meaning
- At the Drop of a Hat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- At the End of the Day – Usage & Meaning
- At Wits End – Meaning, Origin and Correct Spelling
- Auger vs. augur
- Aught or Aughts – Usage & Meaning
- August
- August vs august
- Auld lang syne
- Aunt vs. Ant – What’s the Difference?
- Aural vs. oral
- Aureole vs oriole
- Auspicious vs suspicious
- Authorise vs. Authorize – What’s the Difference?
- Authoritative vs. authoritive
- Autobiography vs biography
- Autocorrect
- Autocrit vs. ProWritingAid
- Autotune or Auto-Tune
- Autumn vs. fall
- Auxiliary Verbs – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Au contraire
- Au Courant – Meaning in English & Examples
- Au fait
- Au pair
- Avail
- Avant-Garde – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- Avenge vs. Revenge vs. Vengeance – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Avocation vs. vocation
- Awaiting vs. Waiting – What’s the Difference?
- Award vs reward
- Away vs a way
- Awed vs odd
- Awfully
- Awhile vs. A While – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- AWOL
- Awry vs wry
- Aw or awe
- Axel vs. axle
- Axes vs axes
- Axe to Grind – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Axiom, adage or epigram
- Axis vs axes
- Ax vs. axe
- Aye vs eye
- A Bed of Roses – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A Big Ask – Idiom & Meaning
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A Blessing in Disguise – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A cat may look at a king
- A Close Shave – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A day late and a dollar short
- A Dime a Dozen – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A Far Cry From – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A Fate Worse Than Death—The Hidden Phrase for ‘Too Horrible to Bear’
- A Feather in Your Cap – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A Fishy Story – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- A Fish Out of Water—A Simple Idiom for Feeling Awkward
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed – Origin and Meaning
- A hold vs ahold
- À La Mode – Origin and Meaning in English
- A la (Ã la)
- A leg up
- A leopard can’t change its spots
- A Lick and a Promise – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- A Light at the End of the Tunnel – Meaning, Origin & Examples
- A little and A Few Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- A Little vs. A Few – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- A Lot On My Plate – How To Express Heavy Workload In English
- A lot vs allot
- A Lot vs. Alot – Difference & Meaning
- A man is known by the company he keeps
- A Man of Letters – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A means to an end
- A method in one’s madness
- A miss is as good as a mile
- A New Lease on Life – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A penny saved is a penny earned
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A Piece of Work – Meaning & Examples
- A Pound of Flesh – Origin and Meaning
- A priori
- A rolling stone gathers no moss
- A Shot in the Arm – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A Shot in the Dark – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- A Slap In The Face – Meaning & Examples
- A Slap on the Wrist – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A stitch in time saves nine
- A Stone’s Throw—A Simple Phrase for Short Distance
- A Taste of Your Own Medicine or Dose of Your Own Medicine
- A Visit From The Stork – Idiom & Meaning
- A watched pot never boils
- A Whole Nother – Usage and Meaning
- A.D., B.C., B.C.E., C.E.
- A.M. or P.M. – How to Write Them (+ Examples)
B
- Babe in the Woods – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bachelor’s or bachelors degree and master’s or masters degree
- Backseat Driver – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Backstab – Definition & Examples
- Backward vs backwards
- Backwater or backwaters
- Backyard, back yard, back-yard
- Back in the day
- Back in the Saddle – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Back seat vs. backseat
- Back the Wrong Horse or Bet on the Wrong Horse
- Back to Square One – Origin & Meaning
- Back to the drawing board
- Back up vs. backup
- Bad Apple – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bad penny
- Bad rap vs. bad wrap
- Bad vs badly
- Bae vs bay
- Bailiwick
- Bailout, bail out, and bail-out
- Bail vs. Bale – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Bain-marie vs double boiler
- Bait vs. bate
- Baker’s dozen
- Balderdash – Origin, Meaning & Definition
- Bald, balled or bawled
- Ball vs. Bawl and Balling vs. Bawling – Difference & Meaning
- Balmy vs. barmy
- Baloney vs. bologna
- Bamboozle
- Band vs banned
- Band (together) vs. bandy (about)
- Bane
- Bankster
- Ban vs. bar
- Baptise vs. baptize
- Baptism by Fire or Baptism of Fire – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Barbecue vs. barbeque
- Barbed wire
- Bard
- Bard vs. Barred
- Bare Bones – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bare vs. Bear – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Bark Is Worse Than One’s Bite – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bark vs barque
- Barnstorm
- Baron vs barren
- Bartleby Write vs Grammarly
- Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah
- Basal, basil, or Basel
- Based vs baste
- Base or Bass – Pronunciation & Definition
- Basis vs bases
- Basis (on a daily basis, on a regular basis, etc.)
- Basket case
- Bass vs bass
- Bastion
- Bated Breath or Baited Breath – Meaning and Origin
- Bathos vs pathos
- Bath or Bathe – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Baton vs batten
- Batten Down the Hatches – Meaning and Origin
- Batting cleanup
- Battle royal
- Bawdy vs body
- Bawl out
- Bazaar vs. bizarre
- Beachcomber
- Beach vs beech
- Bean Counter – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bear market, bull market, bearish, bullish
- Beating a Dead Horse—An Idiom Explaining Futile Efforts
- Beat Around the Bush – Origin & Meaning
- Beat Me to the Punch – Origin and Meaning
- Beat or beaten
- Beat Swords into Plowshares—The Promise of Peace
- Beat vs beet
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Beau and Belle – Difference & Meaning
- Beau vs bow
- Bechdel test and Bechdel-Wallace test
- Beckon call
- Been around the block
- Been there, done that
- Beer vs bier
- Bee in Your Bonnet – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Began vs. Begun – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Beggar Belief – Meaning and Origin
- Begging the Question Fallacy – Meaning and Examples
- Begrudge
- Beg Off – Origin & Meaning
- Behalf
- Behavior vs. behaviour
- Behest vs bequest
- Behind the Eight Ball – Meaning and Origin
- Behold and beholden
- Behoove
- Belay vs belie
- Belie
- Bells and Whistles – Origin and Meaning
- Bellwether
- Bellyache
- Bell the Cat (or To Bell the Cat) – Idiom & Meaning
- Bell vs belle
- Below the belt and hit below the belt
- Benchmark
- Benefiting vs. Benefitting – What’s the Difference?
- Benefit of the Doubt – Meaning, Origin & Examples
- Bent or bended
- Bereaved vs. bereft
- Berry vs bury
- Berserk
- Berth vs birth
- Beside or besides
- Besotted
- Bespeak vs bespoke
- Bespeckled or bespectacled
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- Bête noire
- Better Late Than Never – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Better Safe Than Sorry – Proverb, Meaning & Examples
- Better vs bettor
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Origin and Meaning
- Betwixt – Usage & Meaning
- Beyond the pale
- Bezel vs embezzle
- Be My Guest – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Biannual vs. biennial
- Biannual, biennial and semiannual
- Biceps and triceps
- Bid, bade, bidden
- Bigwig – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big Fish in a Small Pond – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big Kahuna – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big League and Bush League – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big-ups
- Billed vs build
- Bill and Coo – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bill of goods
- Bimonthly and semimonthly
- Binded vs. bound
- Bingeing or binging
- Binge-Watch or Binge-Watching – Meaning & Examples
- Bingo
- Birds of a Feather Flock Together – Proverb, Origin & Meaning
- Bisect vs dissect
- Bite Off More than You Can Chew – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bite or Bight – What’s the Difference?
- Bite the Bullet – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bite Your Tongue – Idiom, Origin & Examples
- Bite-size or bite-sized
- Bit vs. bitten
- Bivouac
- Biweekly vs semiweekly
- Blackmail vs extortion
- Black market
- Black out vs blackout
- Black Sheep Idiom – Meaning & Origin
- Blah Blah Blah – Origin & Meaning
- Blandish vs brandish
- Blatant vs. flagrant
- Blather vs blabber
- Blather vs. blither
- Blaze a Trail – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Blench vs blanch
- Blessed vs. Blest – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Blew, blown, or blowed
- Blind Leading the Blind – Origin & Meaning
- Blind Side vs. Blindside – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Bling
- Blitzkrieg
- Blockbuster – Meaning & Examples
- Bloc vs. block
- Blond or Blonde – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Blood Is Thicker Than Water – Origin & Meaning
- Bloviate
- Blowhard and windbag
- Blowing a Raspberry or Bronx Cheer – Origin & Meaning
- Blowing up one’s phone
- Blowout vs. blow out
- Blowup vs. blow up
- Blow a Gasket vs. Blow a Fuse – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Blow Hot and Cold – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Blow off steam and let off steam
- Blow Someone’s Cover – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Blow the Whistle – Origin & Meaning
- Blow-By-Blow Account – Idiom, Origin & Meanin
- Bluetooth
- Blue blood
- Board vs bored
- Bobble vs bauble
- Bobbsey twins
- Bob’s Your Uncle Meaning and Origin
- Bodega
- Bode vs. Bowed
- Body politic
- Bogeyman
- Boggle the mind and mind-boggling
- Bohemian
- Bokeh
- Bolder vs boulder
- Boldface text
- Bold as brass
- Bold-Faced Lie or Bald-Faced Lie – Meaning & Origin
- Bollocks vs bollocking
- Bombogenesis
- Bona fide, bona fides
- Bone of contention
- Bone to pick
- Bone vs debone
- Bonhomie
- Bon vivant
- Booby hatch
- Book Proofreading Jobs and How to Land Them
- Boondocks vs boonies
- Boondoggle
- Boots on the Ground – Origin & Meaning
- Boot camp
- Booze vs boos
- Border vs boarder
- Bore, boor, boar
- Borne vs. born
- Born with a Silver Spoon – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Borough, burro, burrow
- Botanic vs. botanical
- Bottom Line – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bot vs bought
- Boughten
- Bought the Farm vs. Gone for a Burton – Origin & Meaning
- Bough or bow
- Bound vs. bounded
- Bounteous vs bountiful
- Bourgeois, bourgeoisie
- Bowdlerize
- Bowled vs bold
- Bowl Over or Bowled Over – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bowl vs boll
- Bowl vs bowel
- Bow vs bow
- Boy vs buoy
- Brackets in Quotes – Usage & Examples
- Brackets vs. Parentheses
- Braggadocio
- Braggart vs bragger
- Braid vs brayed
- Brainchild
- Brainwash
- Brain trust vs think tank
- Braise, brays, or braze
- Brake vs. Break – Homophones, Spelling & Difference
- Brandish vs brand
- Brand spanking new
- Bravado
- Breach, breech, broach
- Breadcrumbs, breadcrumb trail and trail of breadcrumbs
- Bread and Butter – Origin & Meaning
- Bread vs. Bred – Homophones, Difference & Definition
- Break a Leg – Origin & Meaning
- Break the Bank – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Break the Ice—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Break the Mold or Broke the Mold – Origin & Meaning
- Break up vs. breakup
- Breastfeeding, breastfed, breastfeed, etc.
- Breath vs. breadth (vs. width)
- Breath vs. Breathe – Usage, Difference & Definition
- Breeches vs. Britches
- Brewed vs brood
- Brews vs. Bruise
- Brexit and Grexit
- Bric-a-brac and knick-knack
- Bridezilla – Origin & Meaning
- Bridle vs. bridal
- Brief vs debrief
- Bring Home the Bacon – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bring one’s A-game
- Bring the House Down or Bring Down the House – Idiom & Meaning
- Bring vs take
- Brite vs. Bright – Meaning, Definition & Spelling
- Briton
- Briton vs Britain
- Broach vs. brooch
- Brouhaha
- Brown-nose and brownnose
- Browse vs. Brows
- Brung, brang
- Brussels Sprout vs. Brussle Sprout
- Bucket list
- Buckle Down—Unraveling the Determination Behind the Idiom
- Buckle Up – Origin & Meaning
- Buck Naked vs. Butt Naked – Which Is Correct?
- Buffaloed – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Buffer vs. buffet
- Buffet vs buffet
- Bugbear or bugaboo
- Building castles in the air
- Build up vs. buildup
- Bulk, balk, baulk
- Bullet Points – Rules, Usage, and Examples
- Bullion vs boullion
- Bullseye or bull’s eye
- Bully pulpit
- Bull in a China Shop – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bumpkin
- Bum-rush vs bum’s rush
- Bundle of Joy – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Bunk vs debunk
- Bunk, bunkum, buncombe
- Bunny vs Bunnie
- Bunt vs. Bundt
- Bun in the Oven – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bupkis
- Burger vs. Burgher
- Burgle vs. burglarize
- Burned vs. Burnt – Difference, Definition & Examples
- Burning the Candle at Both Ends – Origin & Meaning
- Burning the Midnight Oil – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Burnish vs tarnish
- Burnout vs. burn out
- Burn One’s Boat or Burn One’s Bridges – Origin & Meaning
- Burrow vs borrow
- Bursted
- Burst Your Bubble or Pop Your Bubble – Origin & Meaning
- Burthen
- Bury The Hatchet – Origin & Meaning
- Bury Your Head in the Sand – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bused, bussed, or bust
- Buses vs. busses
- Busman’s Holiday – Origin and Meaning
- Busting Your Chops – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Busybody
- Bus stop vs. busstop
- Butterfingers
- Butterflies in My Stomach – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Butterfly effect
- Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth
- Butt of a joke
- Butt (Bump) Heads—The Challenge of Conflict
- But vs. Butt – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- But vs. yet
- Buy a lemon
- Buy, by or bye
- Buzzword
- By and by vs. by the by
- By dint of
- By hook or by crook
- By the Same Token – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- By the Skin of My Teeth – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- By The Way (BTW) – Usage & Meaning
- B Line or Beeline – Origin & Meaning
C
- Cabin Fever – Origin & Meaning
- Cacao vs. cocoa
- Cache vs cash
- Cache vs. cachet
- Cacti vs. Cactuses – Which Is the Correct Plural Usage?
- Caddie vs. caddy
- Caddy-Corner, Kitty-Corner or Catty-Corner
- Caduceus vs staff of Asclepius
- Caesarean section, Caesarian, cesarean, etc.
- Cahoots
- Calendar vs colander
- Calfs or Calves – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Caliber or Calibre – Difference & Meaning
- Calibration vs collaboration
- Callous vs. callus
- Call a Spade a Spade – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Call My Bluff – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Call on the carpet
- Call the Shots (or Calling the Shots) – Idiom & Meaning
- Call vs caul
- Calm Before the Storm – Origin & Meaning
- Calumny
- Calvary vs. cavalry
- Camaraderie vs comradery
- Canard
- Canary in the coalmine
- Canceled vs. Cancelled – Which Is Correct?
- Candor or candour
- Candy corn
- Candy Floss vs. Fairy Floss vs. Cotton Candy
- Cannon fodder
- Cannot or Can Not – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Canny vs uncanny
- Canon vs. cannon
- Cantankerous
- Cantor vs canter
- Canvas vs. canvass
- Can goods or canned goods
- Can of worms vs pandora’s box
- Can vs may
- Can You Put Parentheses Inside Parentheses?
- Can’t Hold a Candle to – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Can’t Make Heads or Tails – Meaning and Origin
- Can’t vs cant
- Capiche, Capeesh, Capische – Meaning & Usage
- Capitalization in Quotes
- Capital vs. Capitol – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Capitulate vs recapitulate
- Capstone, keystone or cornerstone
- Captivate vs capture
- Caramel vs carmel
- Carbon copy
- Carbon footprint
- Carburetor vs carburettor
- Card Shark or Card Sharp – Origin & Meaning
- Careen vs. career
- Caregiver or caretaker
- Caretaker vs caregiver
- Carnation vs incarnation
- Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore
- Carpetbagger – Origin & Meaning
- Carpe Diem – Origin & Meaning
- Carrot, carat, karat, caret
- Carrot-and-stick
- Carry a Torch for Someone—Journey Through Unrequited Love
- Carry on, carry-on, and carrion
- Carte blanche
- Car hood and car bonnet
- Car park vs parking lot
- Case in Point or Case and Point – Meaning & Difference
- Cashmere vs Kashmir
- Cash in one’s chips
- Cash on the Barrelhead—A Simplified Expression for Immediate Payment
- Casket vs coffin
- Cassandra
- Casted – Usage and Meaning
- Caste vs cast
- Cast Aspersions or Dispersions – Difference & Meaning
- Cast Aspersions—Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Cast a wide net
- Cast pearls before swine
- Cast the First Stone—An Important Lesson in Judgement
- Cast-Iron Stomach—How to Eat Anything and Not Feel Sick
- Catachresis
- Catalog vs. Catalogue – Difference & Definition
- Catalyse or catalyze
- Catbird Seat: Idiom Of Power And Advantage
- Catcall – Definition & Examples
- Catching Some Rays – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Catch vs. Ketch
- Catch-22
- Categorize vs categorise
- Catsup vs. Ketchup vs. Catchup – What’s the Difference?
- Cattle vs chattel
- Cat Got Your Tongue – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Caucus
- Caught in the Crosshairs – Targeted Scrutiny or Unwanted Blame?
- Caught Red-Handed – Origin & Meaning
- Causative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Causative Verbs – Rules, Structure & List of Examples
- Cause Célèbre – Meaning & Examples
- Cauterize vs cauterise
- Cavalcade
- Caveat
- Caveat emptor
- Cay vs. Key vs. Quay – Homophones, Pronunciation & Definition
- Cease and desist
- Cede and seed
- Cede vs. concede
- Ceiling vs sealing
- Celebrant or celebrator
- Celiac or coeliac
- Cellar vs. Seller
- Cel, cell or sell
- Center around or center on
- Century or Centuries – Usage and Meaning
- Cent, scent and sent
- Cereal vs. Serial
- Ceremonial vs ceremonious
- Certainty vs. certitude
- Cession vs. session
- Chafe vs. chaff
- Chain letter
- Chaise lounge and chaise longue
- Chai vs chia
- Chalk up vs. chock
- Champing at the Bit vs. Chomping at the Bit – Meaning and Origin
- Change tack
- Chapstick
- Character or caricature
- Charade and charades
- Charism vs charisma
- Charlatan
- Chary vs. Cherry
- Chase one’s own tail
- Chasten vs. chastise
- Chaste vs chased
- Chatbot
- Chateaus vs chateaux
- Chatty Cathy – Origin & Meaning
- Cheapskate – Origin & Meaning
- Cheap vs. Cheep
- Checkered Past or Chequered Past – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Checkout vs. check out
- Check in vs. Check-in (vs. Checkin)
- Check Kiting – Meaning and Examples
- Check Up, Checkup or Check-Up – Which One to Use?
- Check vs. Cheque – Difference & Definition
- Cheek by jowl
- Cheek to cheek vs cheek-to-cheek
- Cheshire Cat Smile – An Innocent Grin or a Smug?
- Chewed Out – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Chews vs choose
- Chew the Fat – Origin & Meaning
- Chicanery
- Chickens Come Home to Roost – Origin and Meaning
- Chicken and Egg Situation – Idiom, Meaning & Examples
- Chick flick and chick lit
- Childcare, child care, child-care
- Childlike vs. Childish – What’s the Difference?
- Chili vs Chilly – What’s the Difference?
- Chills down the spine
- Chink vs. kink
- Chinwag
- Chips vs. fries
- Chip off the Old Block—A Simple Resemblance Idiom
- Chip on Your Shoulder – Origin and Meaning
- Choate or inchoate
- Chock-a-block vs chockablock
- Choosing a Name For Your Proofreading Business
- Chorale, Choral or Corral
- Chortle
- Chose vs. Choose – Usage With Examples
- Chow vs. Ciao
- Chunder or chunter
- Chute vs. shoot
- Cinch the deal or clinch the deal
- Cisgender vs transgender
- Cistern vs sister
- Citizen journalism
- Civic vs. civil
- Civilise vs. civilize
- Civil rights and human rights
- Clamor vs clamber
- Clam Up – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Claptrap
- Classic vs. classical
- Clause vs claws
- Cleanliness is next to godliness
- Cleanup vs. clean up
- Clean Slate – An English Idiom for New Beginnings
- Clean vs. cleanse
- Clean Your Clock – Origin & Meaning
- Cleave
- Clef vs cliff
- Clench vs. clinch
- Clew vs clue
- Clickbait – Origin & Meaning
- Click vs clique
- Client vs. Customer – Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Cliffhanger
- Cliffs Notes
- Climactic vs. climatic
- Clime vs climb
- Cloak-and-Dagger – Origin and Meaning
- Closer vs closure
- Close Proximity or In Close Proximity – Meaning & Definition
- Close Ranks – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Close rhyme
- Close vs clothes
- Close vs. Close – Difference & Meaning
- Close-Knit vs. Tight-Knit – Usage & Meaning
- Close-Minded or Closed-Minded – Definition and Examples
- Cloth vs clothes
- Cloture vs closure
- Cloying and mawkish
- Coal, cole or kohl
- Coarse vs. course
- Coast Is Clear – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cockamamie
- Cock and bull story
- Coddle and mollycoddle
- Coddle vs. Caudle
- Coffice
- Cognate and false cognate
- Cog In The Wheel Or Cog In The Machine – Origin and Meaning
- Coiffure vs coiffeur
- Coin a phrase
- Cold Feet – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cold Shoulder – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Cold Turkey – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Cold-call
- Coliseum vs. colosseum
- Collaborate vs corroborate
- Collectible vs collectable
- Collective nouns
- College vs. University – Usage, Difference, & Meaning
- Collegial vs. collegiate
- Collision vs collusion
- Collocate vs colocate
- Colonize vs colonise
- Colons With Lists – How To Use Them Correctly
- Colon vs. Semicolon. vs. Dash – Usage and Examples
- Color outside the lines
- Color vs. Colour – Difference & Examples
- Coma vs comma
- Combine vs combine
- Comb-over
- Comedienne
- Comeuppance
- Come Hell Or High Water – An Expression Of Perseverance
- Come over vs overcome
- Come What May – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Come-hither look
- Come-to-Jesus moment and come-to-Jesus meeting
- Comic vs. comical
- Coming Down the Pike vs. Coming Down the Pipe
- Coming of age
- Comity vs comedy
- Commas and Conjunctions – Ultimate Guide (with Worksheet)
- Commas in a List – How To Use Them Correctly
- Commas in Dates – Rules and Examples
- Comma Before or After Parenthesis? Examples and Worksheet
- Comma Before or After Thus
- Comma Before Too – Guide & Examples
- Comma Rules and Usage With Examples
- Comma Usage Before and After “and” – Examples Included
- Commencement
- Commend vs command
- Commentator vs. commenter
- Commiserate vs commensurate
- Common French expressions
- Compact vs compact
- Comparatives and Superlatives – Examples & Worksheet
- Comparative Adjectives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Compared To or With – Which One To Use?
- Comparing Apples to Oranges – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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 – Usage, Meaning & Synonyms
- Concerted
- Conches vs. conchs
- Concurrent vs consecutive
- Condemn vs. condone
- Conditionals Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Conditionals – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Conduct vs conduct
- Confidant vs. confidante
- Confident vs confidant/confidante
- Confirmation bias
- Conflate vs conflagrate
- Conflict of interest
- Confusables
- Congruent vs. congruous
- Conjunctions to start sentences
- Conker vs. Conquer
- Connect the Dots—A Simple Idiom for Analysis
- Connexion
- Connive vs contrive
- Connote vs. denote
- Conscience, conscious and self-conscious
- Conservatory, solarium or sunroom
- Consolation vs constellation
- Console vs console
- Consonance vs assonance
- Conspiracy or collusion
- Constant vs consistent
- Construct vs construct
- Consultative
- Contaminate vs contaminant
- Contemporaneous vs. contemporary
- Contemptible vs. contemptuous
- Contentious vs conscientious
- Content Editing vs. Copy Editing – What’s the Difference?
- Content or Contented vs. Contently or Contentedly
- Content vs content
- Contest vs contest
- Contiguous vs continuous
- Continental breakfast
- Contingency vs contingent
- Continual vs. Continuous – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Contractions
- Contract a disease or contact a disease
- Contraption
- Contravene vs contradict
- Contronym and auto-antonym
- Contumely
- Conversate
- Convict vs convict
- Convivial vs congenial
- Convocation, commencement or invocation
- Cook the Books – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Cooler Heads Prevail – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cool as a Cucumber – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Coon’s Age – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Cooperate or Co-Operate – What’s the Difference?
- Coop, coup or coupe
- Coordinate adjectives
- Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives – Examples & Worksheet
- Cooties
- Copacetic or copasetic
- Copse vs. Cops
- Copyright vs. copywrite
- Copyscape Review – Any Good Alternatives?
- Copywriter vs. Copy Editor – What’s the Difference?
- Copy Editing Test – Can you Pass This Quiz?
- Copy Editing vs Proofreading
- Copy Edit or Copyedit – Which is Correct?
- Coral vs. corral
- Cord vs. Chord – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Core, corps and corpse
- Cornball and corny
- Cornet vs. coronet
- Corollary vs. correlation
- Correspondence vs correspondents
- Corroborate vs cooperate
- Cosmetology vs. cosmology
- Cosset vs corset
- Cosy vs. cozy
- Cottage industry
- Could have, could’ve or could of
- Could Have, Should Have & Would Have Exercises
- Could Have, Should Have, and Would Have – Examples & Worksheet
- Council vs. Counsel – Difference & Examples
- Counselor vs. Counsellor – What’s the Difference?
- Counsel vs consul
- Countable Nouns – List of Examples & Worksheet
- Coups vs. Coos
- Coup de grace
- Coup d’état
- Court disaster
- Covert vs overt
- Cover all the bases
- Covet vs covert
- Coward vs. Cowered
- Co-op vs. co-opt
- Co-ordinate vs coordinate
- Crackerjack
- Crack down vs. crackdown
- Crack the Whip – Origin & Meaning
- Crap
- Crapshoot
- Crave vs craven
- Crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, etc.
- Crayon vs Crayola
- Cream of the crop
- Creature comfort
- Crèche and manger
- Credible vs. credulous
- Credible, creditable or credulous
- Creek vs. Creak
- Creeped or Crept – What’s the Difference?
- Crème De La Crème—Origin & Meaning
- 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
- Criticise or Criticize (+ Criticised & Criticising)
- Crooked vs crooked
- Crossing the Rubicon – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cross the Line – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Cross to Bear – Origin & Meaning
- Cross vs crucifix
- Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding
- Croze vs. Crows
- Cruciferous
- Crueler or crueller, cruelest or cruellest
- Crumby vs. crummy
- Crying Over Spilled Milk Idiom—Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Cryptid
- Cry All the Way to the Bank – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cry Wolf – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Culpable vs liable
- Cultural appropriation
- Cul-de-Sac – Usage, Meaning & Spelling
- Cum
- Curate’s Egg – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Curb vs. kerb
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Curly Braces Punctuation – Is It Brackets or Braces?
- Curl One’s Hair—From Fear to Fascination
- Curmudgeon
- Currant vs current
- Currently – Correct Usage, Grammar and Examples
- Curricula vs curriculums
- Curry Favor—An Idiom Behind the Mix-Up
- Cursory vs curse
- Cursor vs curser
- Curtsy vs. Courtesy – Difference & Meaning
- Customise vs. Customize – What’s the Difference?
- Custom vs costume
- Cute as a Button – Origin and Meaning
- Cut and dried
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
- Cut the Mustard – Meaning and Origin
- Cut to the Chase – Meaning & Origin
- Cut to the quick
- Cut Your Losses – Origin & Meaning
- Cut-throat
- Cybersquatting
- Cyber-
- Cyclist vs. biker
- Cynical
- C’est Comme Ca vs. Comme Ci, Comme Ca – Meaning in English
- C’est la vie
D
- Dactyl
- Daily grind
- Damning With Faint Praise – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Damn the Torpedoes – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dampen, damper, dampener
- Dam vs. Damn – What’s the Difference?
- Dance on someone’s grave
- Danglers
- Dangling modifier
- Daresay
- Dark horse
- Dashes – Usage & Examples (With Worksheet)
- Data Is or Data Are? – The Singular vs. Plural Debate
- Davy Jones’s locker
- Dawned on Me – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Daylight Saving Time or British Summer Time
- Days vs. Daze
- Deadbeat – Definition & Meaning
- Dead as a Doornail – Origin and Meaning
- Dead End – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead Man Walking – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead Meat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead set, dead-set, deadset
- Dead to Rights – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Deaf vs deft
- Dealed or Dealt – What’s the Past Tense of Deal?
- Dearth
- Debark or disembark
- Debauchery
- Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
- Decent vs. descent
- Deceptively
- Decidedly
- Decimate
- Deciphering The ‘Movers And Shakers’ Idiom: A Full Guide
- Decisive vs divisive
- Deck the halls
- Declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative sentences
- Decoding Under the Radar—From Unnoticed to Understood
- Deconstruction
- Decrepit vs deprecate
- Decry vs. descry
- Deduce vs. induce
- Deduct vs deduce
- Deepfake
- Deepnet, darknet and deep web
- Deep-seeded vs. deep-seated
- Deer in the Headlights – Origin & Meaning
- Deer vs deers
- Defence vs. Defense – Which One to Use?
- Defenestration
- Definite Articles in English With Examples and Quiz
- Definite vs definitive
- Definition and Examples of Interjections
- Defuse vs. diffuse
- Degenerate vs denigrate
- Deign
- Deign vs. Dane
- Déjà vu
- Delegate vs delegate
- Delegate vs relegate
- Deleterious vs detrimental
- Deliberate vs deliberate
- Delude vs dilute
- Delusions of grandeur
- Demagogue vs demigod
- Demeanor or demeanour
- Demonstrative Pronouns Definition and Examples – This, That, These, Those
- Demon vs daemon
- Demur vs. demure
- Denounce vs. renounce
- Dents vs. Dense
- Dent vs dint
- Dependant vs. dependent
- Deplane or disembark
- Depose vs dispose
- Deposition vs disposition
- Depository vs. repository
- Depravation vs deprivation
- Deprecate vs. depreciate
- Depute vs dispute
- Derision vs decision
- Derring-do
- Descendant vs. descendent
- Desert vs. Desert – Usage & Meaning
- Desert vs. Dessert – When to Use Each One
- Desolate vs destitute
- Desperate vs disparate
- Despite vs. In Spite Of – Difference & Meaning
- Destroy vs. destruct
- Deteriorate vs decline
- Detract vs. distract
- Deus ex machina
- Developmental Editing vs Copy Editing: What’s the Difference?
- Device vs. devise
- Deviled vs devilled
- Devil Take the Hindmost—A Reflection of Human Nature
- Devil’s advocate
- Deviser vs. Divisor
- Dewclaw
- Dew, do and due
- De facto
- De rigueur
- Dharma and karma
- Diagram
- Dialectal vs. dialectical
- Dialogue vs dialog
- Diametrically opposed
- Diamond in the rough
- Diaspora
- Dibs and calling dibs
- Dice vs. Die – Which Is Singular and Which Is Plural?
- Dichotomy vs discrepancy
- Dichotomy vs paradox
- Dickensian
- Didactic vs pedantic
- Dieresis and diaeresis
- Dietician vs. Dietitian – Meaning & Correct Spelling
- Die on the Vine – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Difference Between Tell and Say – Examples & Worksheet
- Difference vs deference
- Differential vs deferential
- Different from, different than, different to
- Digest vs digest
- Dike or Dyke – What’s the Difference?
- Diktat
- Dilapidated
- Dingo’s breakfast
- Directional words
- Dire straits
- Dire vs. Dyer
- Dirigible or blimp
- Dirty Pool – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Disabuse, misuse and abuse
- Disassemble vs. dissemble
- Disburse vs. disperse
- Discombobulate
- Discomfit vs. discomfort
- Disconnect
- Discord vs accord
- Discrete vs. discreet
- Disc vs. disk
- Disdain or distain
- Disenfranchise vs. disfranchise
- Disillusion vs. dissolution
- Disinterested vs. uninterested
- Disparity vs disparateness
- Dispatch vs. Despatch – Meaning, Uses and Examples
- Dispense with vs. dispose of
- Disposed vs. predisposed
- Dissatisfied or unsatisfied
- Dissent vs descent
- Dissociate vs. disassociate
- Distaff
- Distinct vs. distinctive
- Distrust vs. mistrust
- Dis vs. diss
- Ditto and ditto mark
- Divers vs. diverse
- Divorcée, divorcé, divorcee
- Docent
- Dock vs doc
- Dodged a Bullet – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Doesn’t Hold Water (or Do Not Hold Water) – Origin & Meaning
- Does Punctuation Go Inside or Outside of Quotation Marks?
- Does Stick to Your Guns Imply Refusal to Compromise in English?
- Does the Comma Go Before or After Quotation Marks?
- Does the Comma Go Before or After Such As?
- Does the Comma Go Before or After “So”?
- Does the Period Go Before or After Parentheses?
- Does vs does
- Dogged vs dogged
- Doggerel
- Doggy Bag Idiom—More Than Just a Takeout Term
- Dogs of War – Origin and Meaning
- Dog and Pony Show – Origin & Meaning
- Dog days
- Dog Whistle – Idiom, Origin & Meaning in English
- Dog-ear
- Dog-Eat-Dog and Doggy Dog – Meaning & Examples
- Doh, doe or dough
- Dollars to doughnuts
- Dominant vs predominant
- Dominate vs dominant
- Done vs. Dun
- Donner or Donder
- Don vs. Dawn – Difference in Meaning & Spelling
- Don’t borrow trouble
- Don’t change horses in midstream
- Don’t count your chickens
- Don’t Give Up the Ship – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Don’t Hold Your Breath – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out – Origin & Meaning
- Don’t let the grass grow under your feet
- Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
- Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket – Expansion of Idea
- Don’t Rain on My Parade – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Don’t Shoot the Messenger—The Ultimate Blame Game
- Don’t (or Never) Judge a Book By Its Cover – Origin & Meaning
- Don’t’s or don’ts
- Doodle
- Doomsday vs Domesday
- Doppelgänger
- Dossier
- Dos or do’s
- Dotage vs senility
- Dotard
- Doublethink, doublespeak or double-talk
- Double dog dare
- Double entendre
- Double jeopardy
- Double negatives
- Double vs. redouble
- Double-Check – Usage & Meaning
- Double-edged sword
- Doubting Thomas
- Doubtlessly
- Doughnut vs. Donut – What’s the Difference?
- Douse vs. dowse
- Dove vs dove
- Dove vs. dived
- Downfall vs. downside
- Downplay or play down
- Downright vs outright
- Down at the Heels – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Down in the Dumps – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Down in the Mouth – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Down the Hatch – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Down the Rabbit Hole—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Down the Road – Meaning & Synonyms
- Down to the Wire – Meaning & Origin
- Doxing and doxxing
- Doyen or doyenne vs docent
- Do and Make Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Do apologize
- Do as I say, not as I do
- Do a Houdini and pull a Houdini
- Do a 180 or do a 360
- Do right by
- Do the Math – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Do You Capitalize The Word “Internet”?
- Do You Capitalize Words in Parentheses?
- Do You Need a Comma After Thank You? Rules and Examples
- Do You Put A Comma Before Since?
- Do You Put A Period After An Abbreviation?
- Do, Does, Am, Is & Are Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Draconian
- Draft vs. draught
- Dragged vs. drug
- Dragging Feet & Heels—Navigating the Nuances
- Draughts and checkers
- Drawer vs drawer
- Draw a Bead on – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Draw a Blank – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Draw a line in the sand
- Dreamed or Dreamt – What’s the Past Tense of Dream?
- Dredge up and dig up
- Dredge vs drudge
- Dregs vs dredge
- Dreidel or dreidl
- Dribble vs. drivel
- Dribs and drabs
- Drier vs. dryer
- Drink the Kool-Aid
- Drink, Drank or Drunk – What is the Past Tense Of Drink?
- Drive-by
- Droid vs. Android vs. Robot – What’s the Difference?
- Droll
- Dropping Like Flies – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Drop a Dime (or Dropping Dimes) – Origin & Meaning
- Drop a Line – Meaning & Origin
- Drop in the Bucket – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Drop off vs. drop-off (vs. dropoff)
- Drop the Ball – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Drop-dead vs drop dead!
- Drown Your Sorrows – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Drum someone out
- Druthers
- Dry goods
- Dry Run – Meaning & Origin
- Dual vs. duel
- Ducks in a Row – Meaning and Origin
- Duck tape or duct tape
- Dudgeon vs dungeon
- Due process
- Due to vs because of
- Duly Noted – Meaning, Usage & Examples
- Duly vs dully
- Dumb down
- Dumb waiter and dumbwaiter
- Dumpster fire
- Dumpster vs dumpster
- Duplicate vs duplicity
- Duplicate vs replicate
- During the course of
- Du jour
- Dwarfs vs. dwarves
- Dwelled vs. dwelt
- Dyed in the wool
- Dyeing vs. dying
- Dystopia or utopia
- D’oh
E
- Each other vs. one another
- Eager Beaver – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Earnest vs Ernest
- Earn vs urn
- Earthy vs. earthly
- Earworm
- Ear candy and eye candy
- Easier Said Than Done – Meaning & Origin
- Easter egg
- Easy On the Eyes – Origin and Meaning
- Easy pickings
- Eating Out of Your Hand – Meaning & Origin
- Eat Crow – Meaning & Origin
- Eat humble pie
- Eat One’s Words – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Eat, drink and be merry
- Eavesdrop
- Eaves vs. Eves – Difference & Meaning
- Ecclesiastical and ecclesiastic
- Eclipses vs ellipsis
- Economics vs. finance
- Economic vs Economical – Definition & Examples
- Ecumenical
- Editing vs Proofreading
- Editing & Proofreading Worksheets
- Eek vs. eke
- Eeny, meeny, miny, mo
- Effable vs affable
- Effete
- Egging Someone On—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Eggnog
- Egregious vs gregarious
- Eighty-six
- Either vs ether
- Elaborate vs elaborate
- Elbow grease
- Elbow Room – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Elder, Eldest or Oldest – What’s the Difference?
- Electric vs eclectic
- Electric, electrical, electronic
- Elegy vs. eulogy
- Elephant in the Room – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Elfs vs. elves
- Elicit vs. Illicit – Difference & Examples in a Sentence
- Elocution vs. locution
- Elvis Has Left the Building – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Embedded Questions – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Embed vs imbed
- Embolization and embolisation
- Emeritus – Meaning & Definition
- Emigrate vs Immigrate – What’s the Difference?
- Eminent vs. immanent vs. imminent
- Emission vs omission
- Emoji vs emoticon
- Emolument vs emollient
- Empathetic vs. empathic
- Empathy vs. sympathy
- Emphasise vs emphasize
- Empire vs umpire
- Em Dash Usage and Examples
- Enamor vs. enamour
- Enclose vs. inclose
- Endear or Endeared – Usage and Definition
- Endeavor vs. endeavour
- Ending a Sentence With a Preposition (Worksheet Included)
- Endorphin
- End All Be All—The Pursuit of Ultimate Goals
- End of the Line – Meaning & Origin
- End on a high note and go out on a high note
- End Run – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Energize vs energise
- Enervate
- Enervate vs energize
- Enervate vs. innervate
- Enfant Terrible – Meaning & Origin
- Enfold vs. Infold
- England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
- English in flux: 10 word peeves that should be laid to rest
- English moods (imperative, indicative, and subjunctive)
- Engrained vs. Ingrained – Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Enjoin vs join
- Enmity vs animosity
- Enormity vs. enormousness
- Enquire vs. inquire
- Enrol vs. Enroll – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- Ensconce vs sconce
- Enthuse
- Entitled vs. titled
- Entomology vs. etymology
- Entrance vs entrance
- Entree vs entrée
- Enunciation vs. Annunciation – Difference & Meaning
- Envelop vs. envelope
- Envision vs. envisage
- Envoi vs. envoy
- En Dash vs. Em Dash vs. Hyphen – How to Properly Use Them
- En Dash (En Rule) – When To Use It (With Examples)
- En Masse – Meaning & Examples
- En route
- En vogue, in vogue
- Épée, foil or sabre
- Epicenter
- Epic vs epoch
- Epidemic vs. Pandemic
- Epigram vs. epigraph
- Epiphany or Twelfth Night
- Epitaph vs epithet
- Epithet vs sobriquet
- Epitome vs epiphany
- Eponymous
- Equable, equatable, equitable
- Equator vs prime meridian
- Equivalence vs. equivalency
- Equivocate vs prevaricate
- Ere vs. err
- Ergo
- Ergonomics
- Erin Go Bragh – Meaning & Origin
- Erratum, addendum and corrigendum
- Ersatz
- Erupt vs irrupt
- Esoteric vs archaic
- Especially vs specially
- Especial vs. Special – Difference & Meaning
- Espouse vs expound
- Espresso vs. expresso
- Esprit de corps
- Estimate vs estimate
- Estimate vs. estimation
- Estimation or approximation
- Ethereal vs ephemeral
- Ethics vs. Morals – Definition, Difference & Examples
- Ethnicity vs. race
- Ethnic vs ethic
- Et Al. – Meaning, Punctuation and Usage With Examples
- Et cetera (etc.)
- Euphemism
- Evacuate
- Evade vs invade
- Even Keeled or Even Keel – Usage & Meaning
- Even Steven or Even Stevens – Meaning & Origin
- Everybody Who’s Anybody – Meaning & Origin
- Everyday vs. Every Day – What’s the Difference?
- Everyone vs every one
- Everything happens for a reason
- Every Nook and Cranny – Meaning & Origin
- Ever and Never – Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
- Evidence vs evince
- Ewe, yew or you
- Exacerbate vs exasperate
- Exact revenge vs extract revenge
- Exalt vs. exult
- Exceed vs accede
- Excelsior and wood wool
- Excited vs exited
- Exclamation Point (!) – Learn How to Use it Properly
- Excoriate vs execrate
- Excrete vs secrete
- Exculpate vs exonerate
- Excuse vs excuse
- Exemplary – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- Exercise vs. exorcise
- Exhibit vs. exhibition
- Exhort vs extort
- Existential – Meaning & Definition
- Existent vs. extant
- Expatriate vs ex-patriot
- Expatriate vs immigrant
- Expectant vs. expecting
- Expedient vs expeditious
- Expedite vs expedient
- Expend vs. Expand – Difference & Definition
- Expiration date and expiry date
- Explicate vs expletive
- Explicit vs implicit
- Exploitive vs. Exploitative – Definition & Etymology
- Expose vs exposé
- Expound vs expand
- Extant vs extent
- Extemporaneous
- Extol vs extoll
- Extract vs extract
- Extradite vs expedite
- Extraordinaire
- Extricate vs extirpate
- Exuberant vs exorbitant
- Ex post facto
- Eyelet vs islet
- Eyeteeth – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- E pluribus unum
- E-book, ebook, eBook
- E-mail vs. email
- E. coli
F
- Fabulist
- Facepalm
- Face the Music – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Factious vs facetious
- Factious vs fractious
- Factoid
- Factotum – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Faeces vs feces
- Fail vs flunk
- Faint of heart
- Faint vs. Feint
- Fain vs. feign
- Fairweather Friend or Fair-Weather Friend – Meaning & Origin
- Fairy vs ferry
- Fairy-tale ending
- Fair and Square – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fair Dinkum – Meaning & Origin
- Fair to Middling vs. Fair to Midland
- Fair vs. fare
- Fait accompli
- Faker vs fakir
- Fallow vs follow
- Fall From Grace – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fall guy
- Fall on one’s sword
- Fall Through the Cracks or Slip Through the Cracks
- Falseness vs. Falsity vs. Falsehood – Meaning & Definition
- Fame vs defame
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- Famous Last Words – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Famous, infamous and notorious
- Fantods
- Faraway vs far away
- Faro, Farrow or Pharaoh
- Farther vs. Further – Difference, Definition & Examples
- Far East, Middle East, Near East
- Far-fetched – Meaning & Definition
- Fastly
- Fatal vs fateful
- Fate vs. Fete – Homphones, Meaning & Examples
- Fatuous vs facetious
- Faun vs. fawn
- Faux
- Faux pas
- Faux-naïf
- Favorite or Favourite – Meaning & Difference in Spelling
- Favour or Favor – Which Spelling to Use?
- Fay, fey
- Faze vs. phase
- Fearful vs. fearsome
- Feckless
- Feckless vs reckless
- Feeding Frenzy – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Feeling My Oats – Meaning & Origin
- Feet of Clay – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Feet vs feat
- Fell Into My Lap—When Life Surprises You
- Fell Off the Back of a Truck – Origin & Meaning
- Feminity vs. femininity
- Femme fatale
- Ferment or foment
- Ferret out
- Fervent vs. fervid
- Festivus
- Fete
- Fewer vs. Less
- Few vs. Phew
- Fiancé vs. fiancée
- Fiat
- Fiber vs. fibre
- Fictional vs. fictitious
- Fiction vs. nonfiction
- Fiddle While Rome Burns – Meaning & Origin
- Fie
- Fiefdom
- Fifteen minutes of fame
- Fifth column
- Fight Fire With Fire – Origin and Meaning
- Figment of one’s imagination
- Figurehead
- Figures of speech
- Filet vs. fillet
- File, Phial or Faille
- Filibuster
- Finale vs finally
- Final vs finale
- Financer vs. financier
- Finders keepers
- Find vs fined
- Finely or finally
- Fine Tooth Comb – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fingers Crossed – Origin & Meaning
- Finger Pointing or Pointing Finger – Meaning and Examples
- Finger-licking good
- Finite Verbs – Definition and Examples
- Firebrand
- Firefight
- Fireplace vs hearth
- Fire and Brimstone – Origin & Meaning
- Fire in the hole vs fire in the hold
- Firing line vs. line of fire
- Firing on All Cylinders – Meaning and Origin
- Firsthand and secondhand vs first-hand and second-hand
- Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, Etc.
- First aid
- First Come, First Served
- First Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- First Conditional – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- First Floor – Meaning & Spelling
- First things first
- First World problem
- First-world, third-world
- Fiscal vs physical
- Fish or Cut Bait – Meaning, Synonym and Origin
- Fish or Fishes – What is the Plural of Fish?
- Fissure vs. Fisher
- Fit the Bill or Fill the Bill – Meaning and Origin
- Fit To Be Tied – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Fit vs. fitted
- Five o’clock shadow
- Flack vs. flak
- Flagellants vs flatulence
- Flagship – Meaning & Definition
- Flair vs. flare
- Flammable vs. inflammable
- Flap one’s gums
- Flash in the pan
- Flash mob
- Flatten the curve
- Flat out
- Flaunt vs. flout
- Flautist vs. flutist
- Flavor of the Month – Meaning and Origin
- Flavor vs. flavour
- Flea vs flee
- Fleshly vs. fleshy
- Flesh and Blood – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Flesh out vs. flush out
- Fleur-de-lis
- Flied – Meaning & Definition
- Flip one’s lid vs. flip one’s wig
- Flocks vs phlox
- Floe vs flow
- Flora and fauna
- Flotsam and jetsam
- FLOTUS
- Flounder vs. founder
- Flour and Flower – What’s the Difference?
- Flue vs flew
- Flummox
- Fluorescent vs incandescent
- Flu vs. flue
- Fly in the face of
- Fly in the Ointment – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fly off the handle
- Fly the Coop – Meaning & Origin
- Fly-by-night
- Foaled vs fold
- Foaming at the Mouth – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fob off
- Foe vs. Faux
- Folderol
- Fold one’s tent
- Foley
- Follow Suit – Meaning & Origin
- Follow up vs. Follow-up vs. Followup – Which is Correct?
- FOMO
- Font vs fount
- Food Coma – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Food for Thought – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Foolproof vs. full-proof
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
- Fool’s errand
- Fool’s paradise
- Footloose and Fancy-Free — Meaning and Origin
- Foot in the Door — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Foot long
- Foot the Bill – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- Fora vs. forums
- Forbear vs. forebear
- Forbidden Fruit – Idiom, Meaning & Examples
- Forbidding vs. foreboding
- Forceful vs forcible
- Force majeure
- Foregone Conclusion – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Forego vs. forgo
- Forewarned is forearmed
- Foreword vs. forward
- Formally vs formerly
- Format Editor vs. Copy Editor – What’s the Difference?
- Former vs. Latter – Usage With Examples
- Formulas vs formulae
- Forth vs fourth
- Fortnight
- Fortuitous vs. fortunate
- Fortune Favors the Bold and Fortune Favors the Brave
- Forty Winks – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- For all intensive purposes (for all intents and purposes)
- For all the marbles
- For Crying Out Loud – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- For God’s sake
- For heaven’s sake
- For the birds
- For the purpose of
- For, four and fore
- Fosbury flop
- Foul vs. Fowl – Difference & Meaning
- Fount Of Knowledge Or Wisdom VS Font Of Knowledge Or Wisdom
- Fourty or Forty – What’s the Correct Spelling of 40?
- Four-Flusher – Meaning & Origin
- Fox guarding the hen house
- Fracking
- Fractious vs fracas
- Frankenstein’s monster
- Frankincense and myrrh
- Fraud or defraud
- Fraught
- Freegan and freeganism
- Freeze vs. Frieze
- Free for All – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Free Proofreading Quiz – Test Your Skills
- Free Rein or Free Reign – Which One Should You Use?
- French Accent Marks – Aigu, Grave and More
- French alphabet pronunciation
- French Days, Months and Seasons
- French definite articles
- French indefinite articles
- French noun gender
- French numbers
- French partitive article
- Frenemy
- Freshwater vs. fresh water
- Freudian slip
- Friable vs. Fryable
- Friar vs. Fryer
- Friends With Benefits – Origin & Meaning in English
- Fringe benefit
- Fritter away
- Frivolity vs. frivolousness
- Frogmarch or frog-march
- Frog in the Throat – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- From Pillar to Post – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- From Soup to Nuts – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- From the Bottom of My Heart – Meaning & Origin
- From the Get-Go – Origin & Meaning
- Fueled/fueling vs. fuelled/fuelling
- Fulfil vs. fulfill
- Full of Beans – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Full of Yourself – Meaning & Origin
- Full stop vs. period
- Full-Court Press – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Full-Fledged or Fully Fledged – Meaning & Difference
- Fulsome
- Funereal
- Fungi vs. funguses
- Funk
- Funner, funnest
- Furlough
- Furor vs. furore
- Fur vs fir
- Fusillade vs fuselage
- Fusion vs confusion
- Futile vs feudal
- Future Continuous Tense – Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense – Uses & Worksheet
- Future Perfect Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Futz vs. Putz or Futzing Around vs. Putzing Around
G
- Gaelic vs Gallic
- Gaff vs. gaffe
- Gage, gauge, and gouge
- Gaiety or mirth
- Gainsay
- Gaiter vs. Gator
- Gait vs gate
- Gallimaufry
- Gallop vs Gallup
- Gallop vs. Galop
- Gall or Gaul – Definition & Difference
- Galore – Meaning & Definition
- Galumph
- Gambit
- Gambol vs. gamble
- Game Changer – Origin and Meaning
- Game the system
- Gamut vs gambit
- Gantlet vs. gauntlet
- Gaol vs. jail
- Garbage In, Garbage Out—Impact on Productivity
- Gargle vs. gurgle
- Gargoyle or grotesque
- Garner vs garnish
- Garnish vs garnishee
- Garrote, garrotte, or garotte
- Garter snake
- Gaslighting – Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Gasses vs. Gases – Which Is the Correct Plural?
- Gatecrasher
- Gaudy vs. gawdy
- Gavel-to-Gavel – Meaning & Examples
- Gel or Jell vs. Jelled or Gelled – Difference & Meaning
- Gemology vs gemmology
- Gender vs engender
- Gender vs. sex
- Generalize vs generalise
- Genericide
- Genes vs. Jeans
- Gentle vs genteel
- Gentrification
- Geographic vs geographical
- German vs germane
- Gerrymander
- Gerunds and Infinitives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Gerunds and Infinitives – Rules, Examples & Worksheet
- Gerund – Definition and Sentence Examples
- Gestalt
- Gesture vs jester
- Gesundheit
- Getaway vs get away
- Getting Hitched – Origin and Meaning
- Get a Handle On – Meaning & Origin
- Get a Word in Edgewise or Edgeways – Meaning & Origin
- Get back on the horse
- Get in on the Ground Floor – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Get one’s act together
- Get one’s dander up or get one’s dandruff up
- Get one’s back up
- Get out of Dodge
- Get religion
- Get Someone’s Goat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Get the Ball Rolling – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Get the Lead Out – Meaning & Origin
- Get the Scoop or Inside Scoop – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Get the skinny
- Get together vs get-together
- Get up in one’s grill
- Get Your Hands Dirty – Meaning & Origin
- Get, Got or Gotten – When & How to Use Correctly
- Ghosting
- Ghost in the Machine – Meaning & Origin
- Ghost vs ghoul
- Gibberish
- Gibe, jibe, jive
- Gift (as a verb)
- Gilding the Lily—An Idiom from Florals to Fables
- Gild vs. guild
- Gilt vs guilt
- Gimlet eye and gimlet cocktail
- Gimme
- Ginger Grammar Checker Review
- Ginger vs. Grammarly
- Ginger vs. ProWritingAid
- Ginormous
- Gin Up or Ginned Up – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Gird Your Loins – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Gist or Jist – Difference & Meaning
- Gist vs jest
- Git-go
- Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile
- Give it the old college try
- Give up the ghost
- Give Yourself Away – Meaning & Origin
- Glad-hand
- Glamour vs. glamor
- Glamping
- Glare vs glair
- Glass ceiling
- Gleam vs glean
- Glib
- Glom onto
- Gloves Are Off and Take the Gloves Off — Meaning & Origin
- Gobbledygook
- Gobsmacked
- God helps those who help themselves
- Goes without saying
- Gofer vs. gopher
- Going Against the Grain – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Going Bananas – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Going Dutch or Dutch Treat — Meaning & Origin
- Going to Hell in a Handbasket – Origin & Meaning
- Going to rack and ruin
- Goldbrick
- Golden ticket
- Gold Digger – Origin and Meaning
- Gone to Pot – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Gonna
- Goodly
- Goody Two Shoes – Origin & Meaning
- Good enough for government work and close enough for government work
- Good Riddance – Meaning & Origin
- Good vs well
- Goose Is Cooked — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Goose-step
- Gorilla vs. guerrilla
- Gourmet vs gourmand
- Governance vs. government
- Go Big or Go Home – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go down a treat
- Go for a song
- Go for Broke – Meaning & Origin
- Go for the Jugular—Zero In on One’s Weakness
- Go great guns
- Go Haywire – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go into a tailspin and send someone into a tailspin
- Go off half-cocked and go off at half-cock
- Go Off the Rails – Origin and Meaning
- Go pear-shaped
- Go the Distance — Meaning & Origin
- Go The Extra Mile – Idiom, Meaning & Examples
- Go to ground
- Go to Seed – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Go to the Dogs – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go to the Mat—A Metaphor for Resilience
- Go with the Flow – Origin & Meaning
- Go-between
- Graduate vs graduate
- Graffiti
- Grammarist
- Grammarly Chrome Extension How To Use
- Grammarly Free vs. Premium vs. Business
- Grammarly Plagiarism Checker vs. Turnitin
- Grammarly Review – Is Premium Worth It?
- Grammarly vs Sapling Review – Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Chegg Review – 2022 Comparison
- Grammarly vs. Easybib – Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Linguix – Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Perfectit Review – Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. PERRLA – Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Prowritingaid – Which is Better?
- Grammarly vs. Slick Write Review
- Grammarly vs. Wordrake Review – Which is Better?
- Grammar vs. Punctuation – What’s the Difference?
- Grammar vs. Syntax – What’s the Difference?
- Grammar vs. usage
- Grandfather (as a verb)
- Grasping at straws or clutching at straws
- Grassroots vs grass roots
- Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- Grateful vs. gratified
- Grate on one’s nerves
- Grate or Great – Homophones, Meaning & Usage
- Gratis, gratuitous and gratuity
- Gravity vs levity
- Gravy Train – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Gray or Grey – Are Both Correct?
- Graze vs grays or greys
- Grease the Palm – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Great Scott!
- Green Around the Gills – A Simple Illness Expression
- Green light
- Green Thumb or Green Fingers — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Green-Eyed Monster – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Gregarious vs garrulous
- Grenadine vs grenade
- Grieve vs aggrieve
- Grieve vs greave
- Grill vs. grille
- Grinch – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Grinded
- Grip vs. Grippe
- Grisly vs. grizzly
- Groan vs grown
- Grok
- Gross vs net
- Ground zero
- Groupthink
- Gruel vs grueling
- Guarantee vs guaranty
- Guessed vs guest
- Guesstimate
- Guinea Pig — Meaning, Idiom & Expression Origin
- Guise vs. Guys
- Gumption
- Gung-ho
- Gunwale and gunnel
- Gun-shy
- Gussied Up—Meaning & Origin
- Guyline vs guideline
- Gymnasia vs. gymnasiums
H
- Habeas corpus
- Habit vs habitat
- Hail vs. hale
- Hairbrained vs. harebrained
- Hairy vs. harry
- Hair of the Dog – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Hair vs hare
- Hair’s Breadth or Hair’s Breath – Definition & Examples
- Halfhearted and half-hearted
- Half a loaf is better than none and half a loaf is better than no bread
- Half-mast vs. half-staff
- Halitosis
- Halloween or Hallowe’en
- Hallow vs. hollow
- Hall vs haul
- Halve or Half – Difference, Usage and Meaning
- Halve vs have
- Hamming It Up – Meaning & Origin
- Ham-Fisted and Ham-Handed – Meaning and Origin
- Handful, handfuls
- Handicap vs. handicapped
- Hands down
- Hands on or hands-on
- Hand Over Fist—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Hand to Mouth – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Hand-me-down
- Hand-wash
- Hangar vs. hanger
- Hangdog
- Hanged vs. Hung – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Hangry – Origin, Meaning & Definition
- Hang on like grim death and hang on for grim death
- Hang Out To Dry – Definition & Examples
- Hanker vs hunker
- Hanky-panky
- Happenstance – Usage & Meaning
- Happy median or happy medium
- Harbinger
- Harbor vs. harbour
- Hardy vs. hearty
- Hard (Bitter) Pill to Swallow—The Unpleasant Truth
- Hark, harken, and hearken
- Harridan and harpy
- Hart vs. Heart – Difference in Meaning and Spelling
- Hashtag
- Hash out, thrash out
- Haste Makes Waste – Origin & Meaning
- Hatemonger and hate-mongering
- Hats Off (to You) – Idiom & Meaning In English
- Haughty vs hottie
- Have a beef
- Have a Cow – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Have a target on one’s back
- Have one’s ears pinned back vs pin one’s ears back
- Have your cake and eat it too
- Having a Field Day – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Hawk vs. hock
- Haymaker
- Hay vs hey
- Heads Will Roll – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Heads-Up – Usage, Meaning & Definition
- Headwind
- Head on the chopping block and on the chopping block
- Head Over Heels – Origin & Meaning
- Head someone off at the pass and cut someone off at the pass
- Healthcare vs. Health Care – Which One Is It?
- Healthful vs. healthy
- Heal vs. heel (and bring to heel)
- Heard vs herd
- Heartthrob
- Hear through the grapevine, bush telegraph or jungle telegraph
- Hear vs listen
- Hear vs. Here – Difference, Examples and Worksheet
- Heavens to Murgatroyd – Idiom, Definition and Origin
- Heavy-Handed – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hector
- Hedge Your Bets – Meaning & Origin
- Heebie-jeebies
- Heel, heal and he’ll
- Heighth
- Heir vs err
- Helicopter parent and lawnmower parent
- Hell for Leather and Hell-Bent for Leather – Meaning & Origin
- Helpless vs hapless
- Helter skelter or helter-skelter
- Hemingway App vs Grammarly: Which is the Best Editing App?
- Hemingway Editor Review – Is it Any Good?
- Hem and haw or hum and haw
- Hence – Usage, Definition & Examples
- Henpeck
- Herbivorous vs herbaceous
- Heretofore or hitherto
- Heroin vs. heroine
- Heterogeneous vs. heterogenous
- Heterometric
- Hew vs. hue
- Heyday
- He who hesitates is lost
- He’d vs heed
- Hieroglyph vs hierograph
- Highbrow vs. Lowbrow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Higher vs hire
- Highfalutin
- High five
- High Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- High on the hog
- High-Handed – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Hijinks or high jinks
- Himself vs hisself
- Hindsight is 20/20 and 20/20 hindsight
- Hinky
- Hippocratic vs hypocritical
- Hippogriff or griffin
- Hippopotami, hippopotamuses, hippos
- Historic vs. Historical – Usage and Examples
- Hit a Brick or Hit a Wall – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hit It Off – Meaning and Origin
- Hit Pay Dirt – Origin and Meaning
- Hit the bricks
- Hit the Deck – Meaning and Origin
- Hit the Ground Running—Origin & Meaning
- Hive mind
- Hi vs. High – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Hoard vs. horde
- Hoarse vs horse
- Hoar vs. Whore
- Hoax
- Hobo, tramp, bum, or gutter punk
- Hobson’s Choice – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Hocus-pocus
- Hodgepodge vs hotchpotch
- Hogwash – Origin & Definition
- Hokey-pokey, hokey-cokey and hokey-tokey
- Hold My Beer – Origin, Meaning and Usage
- Hold someone’s feet to the fire
- Hold sway
- Hold Your Horses – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Hold (Down) the Fort – Responsibility or Just a Simple Task?
- Holey vs. holy
- Hole vs whole
- Holier-than-thou
- Holly vs holy
- Holy vs. Wholly vs. Wholey – Difference & Meaning
- Homely vs. homey
- Home In and Hone In—Navigating Nuances
- Home In vs. Hone In – Meaning and When to Use Them
- Home school vs. homeschool (vs. home-school)
- Homily vs. Sermon – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Homogenous vs. homogeneous
- Homonyms – Definition, Examples and Worksheet
- Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs – Differences and Examples
- Homo sapiens
- Honcho
- Honesty is the best policy
- Honor among thieves and no honor among thieves
- Honor vs. Honour – Difference & Meaning
- Hoodwink
- Hoopla
- Hoosegow – Origin & Meaning
- Hoover vs. vacuum
- Hooves or hoofs
- Hope or hopes
- Hoping vs hopping
- Hop, Skip, and Jump – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Horn of plenty and cornucopia
- Horsey, horsy, horsie
- Horse of a Different Color—Symbolizing a New Topic
- Horticulturist vs arborist
- Hosanna
- Hot button
- Hot Mess – Meaning & Definition
- Hot Potato – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hot spot or hotspot
- Hot to Trot – Origin and Meaning
- Houndstooth
- Hour vs our
- House of Cards – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- House vs house
- How and When to Properly Use a Semicolon [;] – With Examples
- How and When to Use a Colon (With Examples)
- How and Where to Hire the Best Proofreaders For Any Project
- How Long Does It Take To Proofread 1000+ Words
- How Many Commas Can Be Used in a Sentence?
- How Much Does an Editor Cost & Important Items to Consider
- How Much Does a Proofreader Make?
- How the Tables Have Turned – A Complete Reversal
- How to Add and Use Grammarly in Google Docs
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- How to Add Grammarly To PowerPoint (With Images)
- How to Become an Editor – Ultimate Guide
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- How to Become a Proofreader With No Experience
- How to Become a Successful Writer – Where to Start?
- How to Check Grammar and Spelling in Google Docs
- How to Correctly Use “Beck and Call” in Your Conversations
- How to Edit a Book – 9 Pro Tips (Checklist Included)
- How to Edit Quotes
- How to Hyphenate an Age
- How to Make a Last Name Plural or Possessive – Rules & Examples
- How to Make Edits and Track Changes in Word
- How to Make Grammarly Work With Overleaf in 4 Simple Steps
- How to Proofread Like A Professional – Tips to Get Better
- How to Properly List Things in a Sentence
- How to Punctuate Dialogue – Rules & Examples (Worksheet)
- How To Start a Proofreading and Editing Business
- How to Undo In Grammarly
- How to Use Apostrophes in Contractions – Worksheet Included
- How to Use Attend to vs. Tend to Correctly
- How to Use a Comma With Including
- How to Use Cannot See the Forest for the Trees Correctly
- How to Use Commas with Names and Titles Correctly
- How to Use Commas With “As Well As”
- How To Use Cue vs. Queue Correctly
- How to Use Forecast vs. Forecasted Correctly
- How to Use Get Down to Brass Tacks (Tax?) Correctly
- How to Use Hit the Hay and Hit the Sack – Comparing Sleep Idioms
- How to Use Hope Correctly – Examples
- How to Use Learnings Correctly
- How to Use Learn the Ropes Effectively – Decoding the English Idiom
- How to Use Pay Your Dues to Express Hard Work and Experience
- How to Use Perchance Correctly
- How to Use Semicolons in a List – Worksheet & Examples
- How to Use So and Such – Examples & Worksheet
- How to Use Stank vs. Stunk Correctly
- How To Use Transgender vs. Transsexual vs. Transvestite Correctly
- How to Use Wish – Examples & Worksheet
- How to Use ‘Would’ – Guide & Examples
- How to Use “Etc.” in Parentheses
- How’s it going
- Hubris
- Hullabaloo
- Human vs humane
- Humblebrag
- Humdinger
- Humongous
- Humor or Humour – What’s the Difference?
- Hump Day – Origin & Meaning
- Humus vs. hummus
- Hunker Down – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hunky-dory
- Hunter-gatherer
- Hunt-and-peck
- Hurrah, hooray, hurray
- Hurtle vs. Hurdle – Difference and Definition
- Hush money
- Hush puppy, hushpuppy or hush-puppy
- Hustle and side hustle
- Hybrid vs highbred
- Hygge
- Hymn vs him
- Hyperbole
- Hyper- vs hypo-
- Hyphen Rules And Usage With Examples
I
- Ibid vs idem
- Ice tea vs. iced tea
- Icing on the Cake – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Iconoclast vs heretic
- Ideation vs idea
- Idea vs. Ideal – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Identifying Subjects and Predicates With Printable Worksheets
- Ideogram
- Ides of March
- Idiom vs colloquialism
- Idiot savant or savant syndrome
- Idle Hands Are the Devil’s Workshop or Playground Saying
- Idle, idol, idyll
- If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It – Meaning and Origin
- If need be or if needs be
- If the Shoe Fits, Wear It – Meaning and Origin
- If vs whether
- If you can’t beat them, join them
- If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen
- If you will
- Ignoramus
- Ignorance is bliss
- Ilk
- Illegible vs. unreadable
- Imaginary or imaginative
- Imagism
- Imbibe vs imbue
- Imbroglio
- IMHO
- Imitate vs emulate
- Imitate vs intimate
- Imitate vs intimidate
- Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
- Immaculate Conception vs. virgin birth
- Immolate vs emulate
- Immunity vs. impunity
- Impactful
- Impair vs impede
- Impassable vs. impassible
- Impassive vs. passive
- Impecunious and pecunious
- Impending vs. pending
- Imperial vs empirical
- Imperial vs. Empyreal
- Impetus vs emphasis
- Impinge vs. infringe
- Implosion vs explosion
- Imply vs. infer
- Imposter vs. impostor
- Impractical vs impracticable
- Imprecation vs implication
- Impromptu or improvised
- Improvise vs. Improvize – Which Is Correct?
- Impudent vs imprudent
- Impugn vs. impute
- Inalienable vs. unalienable
- Inane vs insane
- Incarnation vs incarceration
- Incase or encase
- Incense vs incense
- Incent vs. Incentivize vs. Incentivise – Meaning & Difference
- Incidence vs. incidents
- Incipient or inchoate
- Incipient vs. insipient (vs. insipid)
- Incite vs insight
- Inclement vs. Inclimate – What’s the Difference?
- Include, exclude or occlude
- Incommunicado
- Incomparable vs. uncomparable
- Incomplete comparison
- Incomprehensive or incomprehensible
- Incredible vs. incredulous
- Incubus, succubus
- Indefatigable and defatigable
- Indefinite Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Indeterminate vs indeterminable
- Indexes or Indices – The Plural Debate
- Indian corn
- Indian Giver – A Simple Phrase or a Cultural Dilemma?
- Indian Summer – Origin & Definition
- Indict vs indite
- Indirect Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Indirect Questions – Examples & Worksheet
- Indiscriminate vs undiscriminating
- Indolence vs insolence
- Indubitably vs undoubtedly
- Inequality vs. inequity
- Inequity vs. iniquity
- Inexplicable vs. unexplainable
- Infectious vs contagious
- Infect vs. infest
- Inference vs interference
- Infinitives – Uses, Definition & Examples
- Infinitive of Purpose — Examples and Worksheet
- Inflict vs inflect
- Infomercial
- Infraction vs infarction
- Infuse vs suffuse
- Ingenious vs. ingenuous
- Ingrate vs ingratiate
- Inhabit vs habituate
- Inherent vs inherit
- Innate vs. Enate
- Innocuous vs inoculate
- Inn vs. In
- Inpatient or outpatient
- Inroad vs inroads
- Inside baseball
- Inside track
- Insidious vs invidious
- Insofar (in so far)
- Insolent vs insolvent
- Installation vs. installment
- Instalment or Installment – What’s the Difference?
- Instantly vs. instantaneously
- Instigate vs incite
- Instigate vs investigate
- Instill vs install
- Instinctive vs. instinctual
- Intact
- Intellectual property
- Intercourse – Meaning & Definition
- Interment vs. internment
- Intermural, intramural and extramural
- Internal vs eternal
- Internet of things
- Intern vs inter
- Interpretative vs. interpretive
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- Inter-, intra-
- Intimate vs intimate
- Inure vs enure
- Invalid vs invalid
- Invaluable vs. Valuable – What’s the Difference?
- Invention vs intervention
- Inventive vs innovative
- Inversion Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Inversion in English Grammar – Examples & Worksheet
- Inviolable vs inviolate
- Invision or Envision – Difference and Definition
- Invite (as a noun)
- Invoke vs. Evoke – What’s the Difference?
- In Any Way, Shape or Form – Meaning and Origin
- In a Bind – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Heartbeat – Meaning, Synonyms and Origin
- In a Jiffy – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- In a manner of speaking
- In a Nutshell – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Pickle – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Vacuum – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In Clover – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In due course or in due time
- In Excess Of – Usage & Meaning
- In Fine Fettle—Origin & Meaning
- In High Cotton—Exploring an Idiom of Wealth and Success
- In Hot Water – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In kind
- In Like Flynn – Meaning and Origin
- In loco parentis
- In medias res
- In My Element Idiom Explained—Defining Comfort
- In One Ear and Out the Other – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- In Over My Head – An Overwhelming Challenge
- In point of fact or in fact or as a matter of fact
- In situ
- In Spades – Origin & Meaning
- In Terms Of – Usage & Meaning
- In the affirmative
- In the Ballpark—Accuracy in Approximation
- In the Cards or On the Cards – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In the course of
- In the doldrums
- In the hopper
- In the Midst of – Usage & Meaning
- In the midst vs in the mist
- In the Nick of Time – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- In the Offing – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- In the Pink – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In the Process of – Meaning & Definition
- In the Red – Meaning, Origin, and Examples
- In the throes of
- In the Weeds – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- In This Day in Age or Day and Age – Usage & Meaning
- In vitro
- Ipso Facto – Meaning and Examples
- Irk
- Ironic
- Ironical – Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Irregular plural nouns
- Irregular Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
- Irregular Verbs List (with Printable PDF)
- Irregular Verbs – Uses, Definition & Examples
- Isle or Aisle – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Isometric
- Is Costed a Word? What is the Past Tense of Cost?
- Is Earth Capitalized? – Rules and List of Examples
- Is GIF a Word? – Meaning & Spelling
- Is Grammarly Cheating? Should Students Use It?
- Is Grammarly Safe and Secure? Can it be Trusted?
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- Is Irregardless a Word? What Does it Mean?
- Is it Ascent or Assent – What’s the Difference?
- Is It At the End of My Rope or At the End of My Tether?
- Is It Backhanded Compliment or Left-Handed Compliment?
- Is It Center or Centre? – Meaning and Difference in Spelling
- Is it Flier or Flyer? – What’s the Difference?
- Is It God Speed or Godspeed? – Meaning & Usage
- Is It Hail Mary Pass or Hail Mary Play? – Meaning Explained
- Is It Junky or Junkie? – Meaning and Definition
- Is It Savy or Savvy? – Definition & Correct Spelling
- Is Run of the Mill Really About Being Just Plain Average?
- Is There a Comma Before or After “Please”?
- Is ‘God’ Capitalized? – Explanation & Examples
- Is “President” Capitalized?
- Is “Vice President” Capitalized And Hyphenated?
- Italics (when to italicize)
- Itchy feet
- Iteration
- Its vs. It’s – What’s the Difference? (Worksheet Included)
- It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings – Origin & Meaning
- It And There – Usage, Difference & Worksheet
- It Is What It Is – Origin & Meaning
- It Takes a Village – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- It Takes One to Know One – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- It Takes Two to Tango – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- It’s All Greek To Me – Understanding Difficult Idioms
- It’s a Wash – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- It’s curtains for you
- It’s not rocket science
- It’s Raining Cats and Dogs – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- It’s the thought that counts
- Ivory Tower – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Ivy League
- I can live with that
- I Could Care Less – Usage & Meaning
- I or me
- I Rest My Case—From Courtrooms to Conversations
- I Smell Something Fishy – An Idiom For Indicating Suspicion
- I Wasn’t Born Yesterday – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- I’ve Got Your Number – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- I.e vs. E.g – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- I’ll eat my hat
J
- Jackalope
- Jackanapes
- Jack-in-the-box
- Jack-o’-lantern and Halloween lantern
- Jaded
- Jalousie window vs louvre window
- Jam vs. jamb
- Janus-faced
- Jaundiced eye
- Jaywalking
- Jealousy vs envy
- Jeremiad
- Jersey vs guernsey
- Jet Lag – Meaning & Definition
- Jewelry vs. jewellery
- Jewel vs joule
- Je Ne Sais Quoi (or Jenesequa) – Meaning In English
- Jiggery-pokery
- Jig vs gig
- Jingle vs jangle
- Jingoism
- Jinx – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- Jitney
- Johnny on the Spot – Origin & Meaning
- Johnny-Come-Lately – Meaning, Origin, and Examples
- John Doe, Joe Bloggs and Fred Nerk
- John Hancock and John Henry
- Joie de Vivre – Origin & Meaning in English
- Joined At The Hip – How To Use This Phrase Accurately
- Jolly Roger
- Joshing – Origin and Meaning
- Jot or tittle
- Joyful and joyous
- Judgement vs. Judgment – What’s the Difference?
- Judicial vs. judicious
- Juggernaut
- Jump on the Bandwagon—The Art of Conformity
- Jump Ship – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jump the Gun – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Jump the Shark – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jump Through Hoops – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Jump-start
- Junction vs. juncture
- Junkyard Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jury-rig, jerry-rig, jerry-built
- Just deserts vs. just desserts
- Juvenile vs juvenal
- Juxtapose
K
- Kafkaesque
- Kakistocracy
- Kaleidoscope – Meaning, Spelling & Symbolism
- Kangaroo Court – Origin and Meaning
- Kaput
- Katy bar the door
- Keeping My Head Above Water—The Essence of Surviving Challenges
- Keeping Up with the Joneses—Peer Pressure in Disguise
- Keep an Ear to the Ground – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Keep at Bay – Meaning and Origin
- Keep it under your hat
- Keep Me Posted – Origin and Meaning
- Keep Your Chin Up – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled (Skinned) – Expressing Alertness and Focus
- Keep your shirt on and keep your hair on
- Kerfuffle vs brouhaha
- Kernel vs. Colonel
- Keyed Up – Meaning and Origin
- Kibosh
- Kickoff vs. Kick-off vs. Kick Off
- Kick over the traces
- Kick the can down the road
- Kick-Start, Kickstart or Kick Start – Meaning & Definition
- Kid Gloves – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Kill Them With Kindness – Meaning and Origin
- King of the Hill—Defining Dominance
- King’s Ransom – Meaning and Origin
- King’s X
- Kin vs ken
- Kiss Off – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Kiss of Death – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Kiss the Ring – Meaning and Origin
- Kleenex vs tissue
- Klutz
- Knap vs. Nap
- Knave vs nave
- Kneeled vs knelt
- Knee-high to a grasshopper
- Knee-jerk, kneejerk
- Knee-Slapper – Origin and Meaning
- Knew or New – Homophones & Definition
- Knickers vs nickers
- Knighted vs benighted
- Knight in Shining Armor – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Knight vs. Night – Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
- Knit vs nit
- Knit vs. knitted
- Knob vs nob
- Knocked for a loop and thrown for a loop
- Knock Me Down with a Feather—The Art of Amazement
- Knock one for six
- Knock on wood and touch wood
- Knock up
- Knock Yourself Out – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Knock Your Socks Off – Meaning and Origin
- Knock ‘Em Dead – How to Wish Someone Good Luck
- Knot, nought, naught or not
- Knowadays Proofreading Course Review: Is It Worth It?
- Knowadays Proofreading Course vs. Proofread Anywhere
- Know vs. No – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Know where the bodies are buried
- Know which side your bread is buttered on
- Knuckle down and buckle down
- Knuckle sandwich
- Knuckle under vs knuckle down
- Kodak Moments – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Kowtow
- Kryptonite
- Kudos – Origin, Usage & Meaning
- K-pop
L
- Labeled vs. labelled
- Labor vs. labour
- Lackadaisical
- Ladybug and ladybird
- Lagniappe
- Laid vs lade
- Lain vs. Lane
- Laird vs lord
- Lair vs layer
- Laissez-faire
- Lambaste
- Lambast vs. lambaste
- Lamb vs lam
- Lame duck
- Landlubber
- Landslide
- Land of Milk and Honey – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Land on one’s feet
- Languagetool vs. Grammarly
- Laps vs. Lapse
- Lap of Luxury—Origin & Meaning
- Lasagna vs. lasagne
- Lassitude, lethargy and languor
- Last Laugh – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Last Resort – Origin & Meaning
- Latchkey kid and latchkey child
- Later vs latter
- Lather vs lather
- Latitude vs longitude
- Latter vs ladder
- Laughing Stock – Usage, Meaning and Origin
- Laugh up one’s sleeve
- Laundry list
- Lava vs magma
- Laying It on Thick – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Lay an egg
- Lay Out vs. Layout – Usage & Difference
- Lay vs. Lie – Usage, Difference & List of Examples
- Laze vs. Lase
- Lazy Susan
- La Dolce Vita – Origin and Meaning in English
- Leach or Leech – What’s the Difference?
- Lead vs. Lead – What’s the Difference?
- Lead-pipe cinch
- Leak vs. Leek
- Leaned or leant
- Lean vs. Lien
- Leaped vs. leapt
- Leap of Faith – Origin & Meaning
- Leap year
- Learned vs. learnt
- Leased vs least
- Leave No Stone Unturned – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Leave someone holding the bag
- Lede vs. Lead – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Led vs Lead – What’s the Difference?
- Leery vs leary
- Leet, leetspeak and 1337
- Leftover vs. left over
- Left in the Lurch – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Legal vs legit
- Legislator vs legislature
- Legitimate vs legitimitize
- Lended vs. lent
- Lend vs. loan
- Lentil vs. Lintel
- Leotard vs tights
- Lesser or lessor
- Lest
- Lets vs. Let’s – What’s The Difference?
- Letter Names in the English Alphabet and How to Spell Them
- Let Bygones Be Bygones – Meaning and Examples
- Let one’s guard down and drop one’s guard
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Let the chips fall where they may
- Let Your Hair Down – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Let’s vs lets
- Levee vs. levy
- Level playing field and level the playing field
- Liable vs libel
- Liar vs. Lyre
- Licence or License – Meaning & Spelling
- Licker vs liquor
- Lickety-split
- Lick one’s wounds
- Licorice vs. liquorice
- Lier or Liar – Meaning & Spelling
- Lieutenant
- Lieu vs. Loo
- Lie or lye
- Lifetime or life time
- Lighted vs. lit
- Lightening vs. lightning
- Lightning in a Bottle – Origin & Meaning
- Lightning Rod – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Light vs. lite
- Likable vs. likeable
- Like a bump on a log
- Like Clockwork – Describing a Perfect Plan
- Like gangbusters
- Like Oil and Water – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- Like taking candy from a baby
- Lilliputian
- Limbo
- Limelight vs spotlight
- Linchpin vs. lynchpin
- Line Editing vs. Copy Editing – What’s the Difference?
- Linking Verbs vs. Helping Verbs – Difference & Examples
- Linking Verbs – List, Examples & Worksheet
- Linking Words of Contrast – List of Examples & Worksheet
- Linking Words – Full List, Examples & Worksheet
- Links vs lynx
- Lionize and lionise
- Lion’s Share – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lip-sync and lip-synch
- Liquor vs liqueur
- Listserv
- List of 50+ English Suffixes With Examples & Worksheet
- Literally vs. Figuratively – What’s the Difference?
- Liter or litre vs litter
- Litmus test
- Litre or Liter – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Little to No or Little to None – Meaning, Uses and Examples
- Liveable or livable
- Live and let live
- Live off the fat of the land
- Live vs live
- Living the Dream – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Living The Life Of Riley (Reilly)
- Llama vs. Lama
- Loaded for Bear – Meaning, Idiom and Origin
- Load vs lode
- Loafs or loaves
- Loan vs lone
- Loath vs. loathe (vs. loth)
- Locavore
- Loch vs lock
- Lockdown
- Locks vs. Lox
- Lock out vs lockout
- Lock, Stock, and Barrel – Idiom, Meaning, and Origin
- Lodestar – Meaning & Definition
- Logo
- Log In vs. Login
- Log On or Log In – What’s the Difference?
- Lonely vs. lonesome
- Lone Wolf – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Longetivity vs. longevity
- Long in the tooth
- Long johns vs union suit and combination suit
- Long pig
- Long Story Short – The Removal of Unnecessary Details
- Looking Over Your Shoulder – Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Looks Good on Paper – Meaning and Origin
- Look before you leap
- Look out vs. lookout (vs. look-out)
- Loonie, Loony, or Looney – What’s the Difference?
- Loop de loop or loop the loop
- Loop vs loupe
- Loose vs. Lose – Difference & Meaning
- Loot vs. Lute
- Lorem Ipsum
- Lorry
- Lose face and save face
- Lose one’s marbles
- Lose one’s shirt
- Lose the plot
- Lost in the Shuffle – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lothario
- Lots of vs a lot of
- Lovable vs. loveable
- Lovers’ Lane – Meaning and Origin
- Love is blind
- Love Me, Love My Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lower the boom
- Lowkey or Low-Key – Subtlety in Spotlight
- Low man on the totem pole
- Low, lo or lowe
- Low-Hanging Fruit – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Lo and Behold or Low and Behold
- Lucid vs lucent
- Luck of the Draw – Meaning and Origin
- Luddite
- Lukewarm
- Lumber vs lumbar
- Luminary vs luminaria
- Lustful vs. lusty
- Luxuriant vs. luxurious
- Lyme Disease vs. Lime Disease
- L’état, C’est Moi – Origin & Meaning in English
M
- Macabre
- Macaron vs. macaroon
- MacGyver
- Machiavellian
- Machine gun vs. machine-gun
- Mach vs. Mock
- Macintosh, mackintosh, McIntosh
- Maddening vs. madding
- Madder Than a Wet Hen – Used To Express Extreme Anger
- Made vs maid
- Mad as a hatter
- Magical realism
- Magic bullet and silver bullet
- Magnate vs. magnet
- Magnum opus
- Mail vs male
- Main, mane and Maine
- Maize vs. Maze
- Makeup, make-up or make up
- Make a clean breast of it and come clean
- Make do vs. Make Due – What’s the Difference?
- Make Ends Meet or Make Both Ends Meet – Idiom & Meaning
- Make hay
- Make or break and make or mar
- Make or Do – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- Malarkey
- Maleficent vs. malevolent
- Mall vs. Maul
- Malware vs ransomware
- Maneuver vs. manoeuvre
- Manga vs anime
- Manic vs maniac
- Mannequin, Manikin, or Manakin
- Manner vs. manor
- Manspreading
- Mantel vs. mantle
- Many happy returns
- Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone – Origin and Meaning
- Man of the Cloth
- Man’s best friend
- Mare vs mayor
- Marginalize or marginalise vs minimize or minimise
- Marinade vs. marinate
- Mark My Words – Meaning and Origin
- Mark vs marque
- Marquee vs. Marquis
- Marry vs. merry
- Marsala vs masala
- Marshal vs. martial
- Martin vs marten
- Mask vs. Masque
- Massage vs message
- Masterful vs. masterly
- Materiel vs. material
- Math or Maths – Which One to Use?
- Matriculate vs graduate
- Matrix
- Matter of fact or matter-of-fact
- Matter of Fact vs. Fact of the Matter
- Maul vs. mull
- Maundy Thursday
- Maverick
- Maxima vs. maximums
- Maximise or Maximize – What’s the Difference?
- Mayhap or mishap or snafu
- Mayonnaise vs. mayonaise
- May be or maybe
- Meager vs Meagre – Definition & Examples
- Mealy-mouthed
- Meaning of Binomials in English – With Examples
- Means
- Mean vs mien
- Meat, meet or mete
- Medal, meddle, metal, mettle
- Mediator vs. moderator
- Media vs. Mediums – What’s the Difference?
- Meeple
- Melted vs. molten
- Melting Pot – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Meme
- Memento Mori or Momento Mori – Origin & Meaning in English
- Mendacity vs mendicity
- Mensch
- Men in White Coats – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Meretricious vs meritorious
- Meritorious vs maritorious
- Merry Christmas vs Happy Christmas
- Metaphor
- Metaphoric vs. Metaphorical – What’s the Difference?
- Meter vs. metre
- Methinks
- Mexican standoff
- Me vs. Mi
- MIA
- Mice vs. mouses
- Mickey Finn – A Simple English Phrase or a Hidden Danger?
- Microaggression
- Microfinance, microcredit and microloan
- Microsoft Editor vs. Grammarly – Which is Better?
- Micro- vs macro-
- Mic Drop – Origin, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Mic vs. mike
- Might as Well – Usage & Meaning
- Might vs mite
- Milieu
- Militate or mitigate
- Millennia vs millenniums
- Milquetoast vs milktoast
- Mince vs mints
- Mince words
- Mind over matter
- Mind vs mined
- Miner vs minor
- Minima vs. minimums
- Minimize vs minimise
- Minimum vs minimal
- Mint condition
- Minuet vs minute
- Minuscule vs. miniscule
- Minute vs. Minute – What’s the Difference?
- Minutia, minutiae
- Minx vs. Mink – What’s the Difference?
- Mirandize
- Mischievous vs. mischievious
- Misery Loves Company – Meaning & Origin
- Misfeasance vs. Malfeasance vs. Nonfeasance
- Misinformed vs. uninformed
- Misnomer
- Misogyny and misandry
- Missed vs. Mist
- Misspell vs. Mispell – Meaning & Correct Spelling
- Mixed bag
- Mixtape
- Moat vs. Mote
- Mobile, mobile, or Mobile
- Mobilize vs mobilise
- Mob justice and mob rule
- Mob or demob
- Modals of Possibility – List of Examples & Worksheet
- Modal Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
- Modal Verbs of Ability — Examples and Worksheet
- Modal Verbs of Obligation — Examples and Worksheet
- Modal Verbs – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Modeling vs. modelling
- Modern
- Mode vs mowed
- Modus operandi (m.o, MO)
- Mogul
- Mojo
- Mold vs. Mould – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- Mollusc vs. mollusk
- Mollycoddle
- Molotov cocktail
- Momager
- Momentarily – Usage & Meaning
- Mom vs mom
- Monday Morning Quarterback – A Remarkable Display of Guesswork
- Monetize vs demonetize
- Money Is No Object – Meaning and Origin
- Money-grabbing vs. money-grubbing
- Monied vs. Moneyed
- Monkey On Your Back – Meaning and Origin
- Montage
- Moonlight
- Moonshine
- Moose vs. mooses
- Moose vs. Mousse
- Moot vs. mute
- Mop the Floor (With Someone) — Meaning, Uses, and Examples
- Morality vs mortality
- Moral vs morale
- Moratorium
- Morays vs. mores
- Morbid vs moribund
- Moreso
- More bang for one’s buck and bigger bang for one’s buck
- More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
- More vs moor
- Morning vs. Mourning – Meaning, Spelling & Difference
- Mortar board
- Mothball
- Motherhood and apple pie and mom and apple pie
- Mother lode
- Mother of all and granddaddy of all
- Motive vs motif
- Mouse and CAT
- Moustache vs. mustache (vs. mustachio)
- Mouthfuls
- Movable feast
- Movable vs. moveable
- Move Heaven and Earth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Move the goalposts and shift the goalposts
- Move the needle
- Mowed vs. mown
- Mr., Mrs., Ms. and Miss – Full Form and Meaning
- Muchly
- Much or Many – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Much vaunted
- Muckamuck, mucky-muck and muckety-muck
- Muckraking
- Mucous vs. mucus
- Muddy the Waters – Idiom, Meaning, and Origin
- Muggle – Origin & Meaning
- Multitask – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Mumbo Jumbo – Origin and Meaning
- Mum’s the Word – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Murderers’ row
- Murphy’s Law, Sod’s Law and Finagle’s Law
- Muscle vs mussel
- Mustard vs mustered
- Must of (must’ve)
- Mutually assured destruction or mutual assured destruction
- Mutually Exclusive – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- Myriad
- My Cup Runneth Over – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- My dogs are barking
- My Name Is Mud – Meaning and Origin
- My Way or the Highway – Meaning and Origin
N
- Nail-biter
- Naked as a jaybird
- Namby-pamby
- Name-Calling – Definition and Examples
- Nano-
- Nary a
- Nascent
- Nativity
- Naught vs. nought
- Nauseating vs. nauseous
- Naval vs. navel
- Nay, Ney, or Neigh – Difference & Meaning
- Neandertal vs. neanderthal
- Neat as a pin
- Nebbish
- Nebula vs nebulous
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Necktie party
- Neck and Neck Meaning and Examples
- Neck of the Woods – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Necropsy and autopsy
- Necrosis
- Needle vs nettle
- Need vs knead
- Need vs. Kneed
- Nefarious
- Negative prefixes
- Neighbor or Neighbour – Which Spelling Is Correct?
- Neither or Either – What’s the Difference?
- Nemesis
- Neologism
- Nepotism
- Nerd, Geek, or Dork – What’s the Difference?
- Nest egg
- Net neutrality
- Neutralise vs neutralize
- Nevertheless vs. Nonetheless – Difference & Definition
- Never mind vs nevermind
- Newbie vs noob or n00b
- Newfangled
- News
- New vs. Gnu
- New York Minute – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Ne’er-do-well
- NGO vs GMO
- Nib vs nub
- Nice vs. Gneiss
- Nickel-and-Dime – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Nickname
- Nicks vs. Nix
- Niggle
- Night owl or early bird
- Nimby, nimbyism
- Nimrod
- Nip in the Bud – Origin & Meaning
- Nitty-gritty
- Noblesse oblige
- Noble vs ignoble
- Nock vs. Knock
- Nocturnal vs diurnal
- Noel or nowel
- Noisome vs noisy
- Nomenclature
- Nominative or Subjective Case With Examples
- None are or none is
- None of Your Beeswax or Mind Your Beeswax – Origin & Meaning
- Nonplussed
- Nonprofit vs. not-for-profit (vs. non-profit)
- Nonstarter
- Non compos mentis
- Non sequitur
- Non-finite Verbs – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Normalcy vs. normality
- Nose vs. Knows
- Nosy Parker
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- Nothing to sneeze at and not to be sneezed at
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained
- Notwithstanding
- Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be – Meaning and Origin
- Not By A Long Chalk (Shot) – Far From Its Literal Mark
- Not hardly
- Not My Cup of Tea – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Not playing with a full deck
- Not un-
- Not worth a plugged nickel and not worth a plug nickel
- Nouns as adjectives
- Noun Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Nowadays, anymore, or any more
- Noxious vs obnoxious
- No Bones About It – A Direct Statement or a Gentle Confirmation?
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished – Meaning and Origin
- No Guts, No Glory – Meaning and Origin
- No Harm, No Foul – Meaning & Origin
- No Holds Barred – Meaning and Origin
- No horse in the race and no dog in the fight
- No ifs, ands, or buts
- No Love Lost – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- No man is an island
- No Man’s Land – Definition & Meaning
- No News Is Good News – Origin and Meaning
- No One, Noone or No-one – Difference & Examples
- No pain, no gain vs no pain, no game
- No Two Ways About It – Meaning and Origin
- No vs. Not – Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
- No-brainer
- Nuclear family and extended family
- Number Sign – Rules and Examples
- Number vs number
- Number vs numeral
- Numinous vs luminous
- Nunchucks
- Nun vs. None
- Nutriment or nutrition
O
- Oar, ore and or
- Oases
- Objects in Grammar – How to Identify (With Examples)
- Object lesson
- Object vs object
- Obliged vs. obligated
- Oblique
- Obsequious
- Observance vs. observation
- Obsolescent vs. obsolete
- Obstreperous
- Ocher or ochre vs okra
- Ocher vs. ochre
- Octopuses vs. Octopi – What Is the Plural of Octopus?
- Ode vs. Owed
- Odious vs odorous
- Odor or Odour – Meaning, Difference & Spelling
- Oeuvre – Usage and Meaning in English
- Offal vs. Awful
- Offence vs. offense
- Offhand
- Off Of – Usage & Meaning
- Off the cuff
- Off the grid or off-grid
- Off the Hook—More Than Just an Escape
- Off the Rack (Peg)—A Simple Phrase for ‘Ready-to-Wear’
- Off the record vs not for attribution
- Off The Wagon and On The Wagon – Meaning & Examples
- Off the Wall – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Off Your Rocker—Idioms of Eccentricity
- Off-kilter and out of kilter
- Oftentimes
- Oh vs. Owe
- Oh Well – Usage & Meaning
- Ok vs. Okay – Usage & Difference
- Oldie But Goodie – Origin & Meaning
- Old as Methuselah
- Old chestnut
- Old Glory
- Old Habits Die Hard – Origin & Meaning
- Old Hat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Old wives’ tale vs old wise tale
- Old-fashioned or old fashion
- Olfactory vs old factory
- Oligarchy vs monarchy
- Olive branch
- Ombré, Ombre or Hombre
- Omelet vs. omelette
- Omnibus vs ombudsman
- Onboard vs. On board
- Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Once in a Blue Moon – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Once in a lifetime vs once-in-a-lifetime
- Oneself vs. One’s Self – Definition and Usage
- One and the same, one in the same
- One Fell Swoop – Origin and Meaning
- One For the Books – Origin and Meaning
- One for the money, two for the show
- One good turn deserves another
- One hand washes the other
- One Size Fits All – An Idiom For Every Situation
- One’s eyes are bigger than one’s stomach
- One-hit wonder
- One-Horse Town – Meaning & Origin
- One-time vs. onetime
- One-Trick Pony – Meaning and Origin
- One-upmanship
- Online vs. on-line
- Onomatopoeia
- Onus
- On Accident or By Accident – Usage & Examples
- On a lark
- On a Tear – Meaning and Origin
- On a Wing and Prayer – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- On Cloud Nine – Origin & Meaning
- On fleek
- On one’s last legs
- On pins and needles
- On steroids
- On tenterhooks
- On the back burner
- On the Back Foot – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- On the Ball—A Deep Dive into Competence
- On the Bubble – Meaning and Origin
- On the Clock – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- On the contrary
- On the Fence – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- On the Fly – Meaning and Origin
- On the fritz
- On the House – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- On the lam
- On the q.t.
- On the Rocks – Meaning and Origin
- On the Ropes – Expressing Helplessness or Instigating Fight Back
- On the Same Page – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- On the stump and stump speech
- On the up and up
- On the wrong foot and on the right foot
- On your mark, get set, go! and ready, set, go!
- Oompa Loompa
- Open and shut case
- Open Class vs Closed Class Words – Meaning & Examples
- Open Secret – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Operationalise or operationalize
- Opossum vs. possum
- Oppress, repress, suppress
- Op-ed
- Oracle vs auricle
- Oral vs. verbal
- Order of Adjectives Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Order of Adjectives — Rules, Chart and Worksheet
- Ordinance vs. ordnance
- Organise vs. organize
- Orientate
- Origin or origins
- Ornery – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Orthopedic vs. orthopaedic
- Other fish to fry and bigger fish to fry
- Ought vs. Aught
- Ours is not to reason why; ours is but to do and die
- Ouster
- Outset vs onset
- Outside of
- Outwrite vs Grammarly
- Out and out
- Out of Left Field – Meaning and Origin
- Out of My League – Acknowledging Superiority or Just Self-Doubt
- Out of Pocket – Meaning, Origin, & Definition
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind – Usage & Meaning
- Out of Sorts – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Out of the blocks and off the blocks
- Out of the blue vs out of the woodwork
- Out of the Blue – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Out of the frying pan and into the fire
- Out of the Loop (In the Loop) – Indicating Ignorance or Knowledge?
- Out of the Woods – Idioms for Overcoming Difficulties
- Out of whole cloth
- Overbilled vs. Overbuild
- Overdo vs. overdue
- Overlook vs look over
- Overly
- Overnight vs. over night
- Overrate vs overate
- Oversees vs. Overseas
- Oversee vs overlook
- Overtake, take over and takeover
- Overthink vs think over
- Overtime vs over time
- Overtones vs. undertones
- Over a Barrel – Origin & Meaning
- Over the Hump – Meaning and Origin
- Over the Top – Meaning & Origin
- Over- and under- (prefixes)
- Own Up – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- Oxymorons: A Collection of Contradictory Words and Phrases
- O vs. Oh – Usage, Meaning & Examples
P
- Packed vs. Pact
- Packs vs pax
- Paddy wagon
- Paean, paeon, peon
- Pail vs. Pale
- Paint The Town Red – How To Let Loose And Have Some Fun
- Pain vs. Pane
- Pair vs. pare vs. pear
- Pajamas vs. pyjamas
- Palate, palette, pallet
- Pale in comparison
- Palindrome (poetry)
- Pall vs. pallor
- Palpable vs palatable
- Pander vs ponder
- Panhandle
- Pan Out – Origin & Meaning
- Paper Tiger – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Paper-thin
- Parade float
- Paralympics
- Paralyse vs. paralyze
- Parameter vs perimeter
- Paramount vs. tantamount
- Paraphernalia
- Pardon My French – A Polite Excuse or a Veil for Obscenity?
- Parentheses or Parenthesis – What’s the Difference?
- Parentheses (Round Bracket) Use With Examples
- Parenthetical Phrases – Definition & Examples
- Pariah vs piranha
- Parish vs perish
- Parlay vs. parley
- Parlor or parlour
- Parody vs parity
- Parol vs. Parole
- Parricide vs. patricide
- Parsimony
- Participial prepositions
- Participle Clauses – Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
- Parting Shot – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Part and parcel
- Par Excellence – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Par for the Course – Meaning and Origin
- Passable or passible
- Passed vs. past
- Passerbys or passersby
- Passing strange
- Passing the Torch – How To Properly Transfer Responsibilities
- Passive Voice Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Passive Voice – Usage, Misuses & Worksheet
- Passive vs. Active Voice – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- Pass muster
- Pass muster vs pass mustard
- Pass with flying colors
- Pasteurize vs pasteurise
- Paste vs. Paced
- Pastime vs past time
- Pasty vs pasty
- Past Continuous Tense – Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
- Past master
- Past Participle Adjectives – Uses & Examples
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Uses & Examples
- Past Perfect Tense – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Exercises
- Pathetic vs apathetic
- Path of least resistance and line of least resistance.
- Patience vs. Patients – Usage, Meaning & Spelling
- Patient Zero – Meaning and Origin
- Patois
- Patriotism vs nationalism
- Patron vs. Benefactor – Difference & Definition
- Patsy
- Patty vs paddy
- Paucity – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Pause vs paws
- Payback vs. pay back
- Payed vs. Paid – Definition, Difference & Examples
- Pay It Forward – Meaning, Synonyms & Examples
- Pay Lip Service – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Pay one’s respects
- Pay the Piper – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Pay Through the Nose – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Peaceable vs. peaceful
- Peace of mind, piece of (one’s) mind
- Peak vs. peek vs. pique
- Peal vs. peel
- Pearls of wisdom
- Pea vs pee
- Peccadillo
- Pecking Order – Origin and Meaning
- Pedal vs. peddle vs. petal
- Pediatric or paediatric
- Pediment vs impediment
- Peeping Tom
- Peer vs pier
- Pejorative
- Pell-mell
- Penal vs. penile
- Penance vs pittance
- Penchant vs pension
- Pendant vs. Pendent – Meaning & Difference
- Penny for Your Thoughts – Origin and Meaning
- Pentagon
- Pentimento vs pimento or pimiento
- Penultimate
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Peplum vs pablum
- Percent vs. per cent
- Peremptory vs pre-emptory
- Perfect Storm – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Perfunctory vs peremptory
- Periodic vs. Periodical – Origin, Usage and Examples
- Period Punctuation Rules and Examples
- Peripatetic
- Perjury
- Perk vs perq
- Permit vs permit
- Pernickety vs. persnickety
- Perpetrate vs perpetuate
- Perquisite vs. prerequisite (vs. requisite)
- Persecute vs. prosecute
- Personality vs personage vs persona
- Personal vs personable
- Personal vs personnel
- Persona non grata
- Personification vs anthropomorphism
- Persons vs. People – Proper Usage & Examples
- Perspective vs. prospective
- Persuade vs dissuade
- Peruse
- Pervert vs subvert
- Per diem
- Per Se or Per Say – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Per vs. Purr
- Petroglyph vs pictograph
- Pettifogger
- Petulant vs impetuous
- Pet vs. petted
- Pharaoh or Pharoah
- Phial vs. vial (vs. vile)
- Philly vs. Filly
- Phishing
- Phoning It In or Phone It In – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Phony vs. phoney
- Phosphate vs. Phosphorus vs. Phosphorous
- Phosphene
- Photogenic vs photographic
- Photo Bomb or Photobomber – Usage, Meaning & Origin
- Photo shoot vs. photoshoot
- Phrasal adjectives
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrasal Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Phrasal Verbs – List, Uses & Examples
- Phrases
- Phubbing
- Picaresque vs. picturesque
- Picayune
- Pica vs. Pika
- Picks, Pix or Pyx
- Pickup vs. Pick Up (vs. Pick-up)
- Pidgin vs. Pigeon
- Piebald, skewbald, pinto or paint
- Piecemeal
- Pièce de résistance
- Piece of Cake – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Piece vs. Peace – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Pied Piper
- Pie hole
- Pie in the Sky – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Pigeon Hole – Origin & Meaning
- Piggyback
- Piggy bank
- Pig in a Poke – Meaning and Origin
- Pincer vs. pincher
- Pink slip
- Pin money
- Pipe Down – A Polite Request for Silence
- Pipe dream
- Piping Hot – Origin & Meaning
- Pipsqueak
- Pissant
- Pistol vs. Pistil
- Pitchblende
- Pitcher vs picture
- Pitch-perfect and picture-perfect
- Pithy
- Pith vs pit
- Pit stop
- Pixelated vs. pixilated
- Pi and Pie – Spelling, Difference & Meaning
- Placate vs placket
- Placebo vs nocebo
- Place card vs placard
- Plainclothes
- Plaintiff vs defendant
- Plaintive vs plaintiff
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Plain vs. plane
- Plait vs. Plate
- Plantar vs. Planter
- Plan B – Idiom & Meaning
- Plaque vs plack
- Plateaus vs. plateaux
- Playing Russian roulette
- Playing With Fire – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Playwright vs. playwrite
- Play By Ear – Meaning and Usage
- Play cat and mouse and play a game of cat and mouse
- Play Fast and Loose – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Play for Keeps – Meaning and Origin
- Play hardball
- Play one’s cards right
- Play possum
- Play Second Fiddle – Playing A Less Important Role
- Pleaded or Pled – Definition & Examples
- Please vs. Pleas
- Pleather and Naugahyde
- Plenary vs preliminary
- Plenitude vs. plentitude
- Plethora
- Pleural vs. Plural
- Plough vs. plow
- Plug-ugly vs pug-ugly
- Plum vs. plumb
- Plurals of nouns ending in ‘Y’
- Plural Form – Is It Potatoes or Potatos or Tomatoes or Tomatos?
- Plural Nouns – Rules, List of Examples & Worksheet
- Plural of Platypus – Platypuses or Platypi?
- Plural Possessive Nouns – Rules and Examples
- Plutocrat vs autocrat
- Podcast
- Podium vs lectern
- Poetic justice
- Poetry vs prose
- Pogrom vs genocide
- Point in time
- Point of no return
- Point of view, standpoint, viewpoint
- Point-blank
- Poisoning the well
- Poisonous vs venomous
- Poker Face – Meaning and Definition
- Polemic vs Polemical – What’s the Difference?
- Pole vs. Poll
- Polish vs. Polish – Meaning & Difference
- Polite company and polite society
- Politics
- Polka dot
- Pollyanna
- Polygamy vs. polygyny vs. polyandry
- Poly- vs mono-
- Pompom vs. pompon (vs. pom-pom etc.)
- Pomp and circumstance
- Ponderous
- Pony up
- Ponzi scheme and Ponzi game
- Poof, Pouf or Pouffe
- Pooh-bah or poobah
- Pooh-poohed
- Pooped
- Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
- Poor-mouth vs bad-mouth
- Poo vs. pooh
- Popinjay
- Poppycock
- Populace vs. populous
- Pop culture
- Pop one’s clogs
- Pop the question
- Porch vs. Veranda vs. Verandah – Difference & Definition
- Pore over vs. pour over
- Pore, pour or poor
- Pork barrel
- Portend vs pretend
- Portend vs. portent
- Port vs. starboard
- Poseur vs poser
- Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns (+ Worksheet)
- Possessive Adjectives – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Possessive Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Possessive Pronouns – List, Examples & Worksheet
- Possibility vs probability
- Poster child
- Postpositive adjectives
- Post-truth
- Potentiality
- Potluck
- POTUS
- Pour cold water on and throw cold water on
- Powwow
- Pox
- Practicable vs. practical
- Practical joke
- Practice What You Preach – Origin & Meaning
- Practise or Practice – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Pragmatism
- Praise vs preys
- Praise vs. Prays
- Pram, baby carriage and baby buggy
- Prank call or crank call
- Pray vs. prey
- Preaching to the Choir – Meaning and Origin
- Prebiotic vs probiotic
- Precedence vs precedents
- Precipitate vs precipitous
- Precocious vs precious
- Predicate Nominative – Definition and Examples
- Predict vs predicate
- Predominantly vs. Predominately – Usage & Meaning
- Premier vs. premiere
- Prepositions of Place Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Prepositions of Place – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Prepositions of Time Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Prepositions of Time – Usage, Examples & Worksheet
- Preposition Collocations Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Preposition Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
- Preposition vs. proposition
- Prescient vs present
- Prescribe vs. proscribe
- Present company excepted vs present company accepted
- Present Continuous Tense – Uses & Examples
- Present Perfect Continuous Tense – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Present Perfect Tense – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Present Perfect vs Past Simple Tense (With Worksheet)
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense (With Worksheet)
- Present Simple and Future Simple Exercises (+ Printable PDF)
- Present Simple vs. Present Continuous Tense (With Worksheet)
- Present vs present
- Preserve vs persevere
- Press the flesh
- Presume vs. Assume – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Presumptive vs. presumptuous
- Pretence vs. pretense
- Pretentious vs portentous
- Preternatural vs supernatural
- Preventative vs. preventive
- Previous vs. prior
- Price gouging
- Pride comes before a fall and pride goeth before a fall
- Pride vs. Pried
- Primal scream
- Prima Donna – Definition & Meaning
- Prime the Pump – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Primrose Path—A Metaphor for Easy But Risky Choices
- Principal vs. Principle – Definition & Difference
- Prioritize vs prioritise
- Prise or Prize or Pries – What’s the Difference?
- Privatization vs nationalization
- Privy
- Proactive
- Problematic vs. problematical
- Procede vs. Precede vs. Proceed – What’s the Difference?
- Procrastinate
- Prodigal and prodigy
- Prodigious vs prolific
- Produce vs produce
- Profit vs. Prophet
- Progeny vs prodigy
- Program vs. Programme – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Project vs project
- Proliferate vs profligate
- Promise vs premise
- Promulgate vs propagate
- Prom and The Proms
- Pronoun Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Proofreader Cover Letter Examples and Tips
- Proofreader Resume Examples and Tips
- Proofreading and Editing Examples
- Proofreading Certification – How To Get Certified
- Proofreading Checklist – 12 Essential Things To Look For
- Proofreading Rates – Per Word and Hourly With Charts
- Proofreading vs. Revising – What is the Difference?
- Proofread Anywhere Review – Is it Worth It?
- Proof by example
- Proof is in the pudding
- Prophecy vs. prophesy
- Propitiate vs expiate
- Proportional vs. proportionate
- Proprietary vs propitiatory
- Props
- Prostate vs. prostrate
- Pros vs prose
- Protagonist vs. Antagonist – Definitions and Examples
- Protean vs protein
- Protégé
- Proved vs. proven
- Proverbial vs figurative
- Proverb vs adage
- Providence vs province
- Province vs provenance
- Prowritingaid Review: Is It the Best Editing Program?
- Proximal vs proximate
- Psalter vs salter
- Pseudo
- Psychopath vs. sociopath
- Psych vs. psyche
- Pulling one’s leg
- Pulling Out All the Stops – Meaning and Origin
- Pulling Teeth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Pullout, pull-out, pull out
- Pull one’s punches
- Pull one’s weight
- Pull rank
- Pull strings
- Pull the Plug – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Pull the rug out from under
- Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes – A Simple Phrase Or A Way To Fool Someone?
- Pull Up Stakes or Up Sticks – Origin & Meaning
- Punch list
- Punctilious vs punctual
- Pupal vs. Pupil
- Puppy love or poppy love
- Pure as the Driven Snow – Origin and Meaning
- Purple prose
- Purposely vs. purposefully
- Purpose vs porpoise
- Pushing Up Daisies – Meaning & Origin
- Push My Buttons—Invoking Strong Emotional Reactions
- Push the Envelope—A Simple Phrase for Going Beyond
- Pusillanimous
- Pussy vs pussy
- Putative vs punitive
- Putting the Cart Before the Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Putting vs putting
- Putty in one’s hands
- Put a damper on
- Put a flea in someone’s ear vs put a bug in someone’s ear
- Put one’s best foot forward
- Put one’s cards on the table and lay one’s cards on the table
- Put One’s Finger on Something—An Idiom of Precise Understanding
- Put on heirs or airs
- Put on Hold – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Put On Ice – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Put something on the map
- Put though the wringer vs put through the ringer
- Put Two and Two Together – Drawing an Obvious Conclusion
- Put Up or Shut Up – Meaning and Origin
- Put up with
- Put up your dukes
- Put words in someone’s mouth
- p.d.q.
Q
- Quaff vs coif
- Qualitative vs. qualitive
- Qualitative, quantitative
- Quality time
- Qualm vs calm
- Quantitative vs. quantitive
- Quantum
- Quarts vs. Quartz
- Quash vs. squash
- Quasi
- Quay
- Quelch vs. squelch
- Query vs inquiry
- Questions in English Grammar – Structure & Examples
- Question Mark After “I Was Wondering” – Guide & Examples
- Question Mark and Quotation Marks – Usage & Examples
- Question Mark – Grammar and Punctuation Rules
- Que Sera Sera – A Universal Expression of Fate
- Quicksilver
- Quid pro quo
- Quillbot Review
- Quillbot vs Grammarly
- Quire vs. Choir – Meaning, Difference & Spelling
- Quisling
- Quiver vs quaver
- Quixotic
- Quotation Marks or Italics In Titles?
- Quotation Marks (“) – Rules and Examples
- Quote Unquote – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Quote vs quotation
- Quote Within a Quote – Guide and Examples
R
- Rabble-rouser
- Racket vs. racquet
- Rack one’s brain
- Rack vs. wrack
- Radar, sonar, and lidar
- Radical
- Radical vs. Radicle
- Rah vs. Raw
- Rail vs. Rale
- Rain Check – Idiom, Slang & Meaning
- Rain vs. Rein vs. Reign – Difference in Definition & Spelling
- Raise Cain
- Raise One’s Hackles or Get One’s Hackles Up
- Raise the Bar – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Raise vs rays
- Raise vs rise
- Raise vs. Raze
- Raison d’etre
- Rake over the coals and haul over the coals
- Rambunctious
- Ramrod straight and ramrod through
- Ramshackle
- Rancor vs. rancour
- Randomize vs randomise
- Random act of kindness
- Rank and file
- Rappel vs. repel
- Rapt vs. wrapt
- Rap on the Knuckles – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Raring to Go – Meaning and Origin
- Rational or rationale
- Rat Race – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Ravaging vs. ravishing
- Raven vs raven
- Raven vs ravenous
- Razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz
- Razzmatazz or razzamatazz
- Reactionary vs. reactive
- Read Between the Lines – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Read the fine print and read the small print
- Read the Riot Act – Meaning and Origin
- Read the Room – Origin & Meaning
- Read vs read
- Realise vs. realize
- Realty vs reality
- Real-time vs. Real Time
- Reappropriate
- Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
- Rebel vs rebel
- Rebuke vs refute
- Rebus
- Rebut vs refute
- Recant vs recount
- Recede vs. Reseed
- Receipt vs. Recipe – Difference in Meaning & Spelling
- Recent vs. resent
- Recognize vs recognise
- Reconnoiter
- Record vs record
- Recur vs. reoccur
- Recuse vs excuse
- Redact vs retract
- Redneck vs. Hillbilly vs. Hick – What’s the Difference?
- Redoubt
- Redress vs readdress
- Red carpet
- Red Flag – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Red herring
- Red tape
- Red vs. Read – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Red-Letter Day – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Reed vs read
- Reef vs wreath
- Reek vs. Wreak
- Referendum
- Reflexive Pronouns – Definition & Examples (Worksheet Included)
- Reforested wood
- Refugee vs immigrant
- Refuse vs refuse
- Regard vs. regards
- Regift
- Regimen vs regiment
- Regime vs. regimen
- Regrettable vs. regretful
- Regulate vs relegate
- Reindeer or caribou
- Reinvent the Wheel – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Relative Clauses Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Relative Clauses – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Relative Pronouns – Usage & Examples (with Worksheet)
- Relevancy vs. Relevance – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Reluctant vs reticent
- Remunerate vs. renumerate
- Renascence and renaissance
- Rend or rent
- Renege vs rescind
- Repair vs reparation
- Repeal vs. rRepeel
- Repel vs. repulse
- Repertoire or repertory
- Repetition vs repetitiveness
- Repetitive vs redundant
- Reported Speech Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Reported Speech – Rules, Examples & Worksheet
- Reporting Verbs Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Reporting Verbs – Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
- Represent vs represent
- Repudiate and refudiate
- Repudiate vs refute
- Repugnant vs pungent
- Reputedly vs reportedly
- Repute vs refute
- Resemble vs reassemble
- Resent vs resent
- Resign vs re-sign
- Resilience vs. resiliency
- Resister vs. Resistor
- Resolve vs solve
- Respective, respectively
- Restaurateur vs. restauranteur
- Restitution vs retribution
- Restive
- Restrictive and nonrestrictive
- Restrict vs constrict
- Rest on one’s laurels
- Rest or Wrest – Meaning & Difference
- Résumé
- Retard
- Retch vs. wretch
- Retcon
- Retrograde vs anterograde or antegrade
- Retronym
- Retrospect vs introspect
- Reverent vs reverend
- Reverso Grammar Review
- Review vs. revue
- Revising vs. Editing – What’s the Difference?
- Re-create vs. recreate
- Rhetorical question
- Rhyme or reason
- Ridded
- Ride roughshod and run roughshod
- Riding Coattails—Success by Association
- Riding Shotgun — Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Rife vs. ripe
- Riffle vs rifle
- Riffraff
- Riffraff vs riprap
- Riff vs. rift
- Righten
- Right as Rain – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Right Off the Bat – Meaning and Origin
- Right, Rite or Write
- Right-of-way
- Right-side up
- Rigmarole
- Rigor mortis
- Rime vs. Rhyme – What’s the Difference?
- Ringside Seat – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Ring a Bell- Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Ring vs. wring
- Riposte vs. Repost
- Riptide, rip current or undertow
- Rip-off or rip off
- Rise Like a Phoenix From the Ashes
- Risky vs risqué
- Rite of passage
- Rivaled/rivaling vs. rivalled/rivalling
- Road hog
- Road kill or roadkill
- Road rage
- Road rash and gravel rash
- Road vs. Rode
- Roam vs. Rome
- Robbing Peter to Pay Paul – Meaning and Origin
- Rock the Boat – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Rock ‘n’ roll, rock and roll, rock’n’roll, etc.
- Roil vs. Royal
- Role vs. Roll – Difference & Meaning
- Rollout vs. roll out
- Rollover vs. roll over
- Roll Up Your Sleeves – Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Roman-Ã -clef
- Rood vs rude
- Roofs vs. rooves
- Rookie
- Roommate, room mate or room-mate
- Root vs. route vs. rout
- Rose Colored Glasses – An Idiom Of Optimism Or Ignorance
- Rotate or revolve
- Rotund vs rotunda
- Rot vs. Wrought
- Rouge vs. Rogue – What’s the Difference?
- Rouse vs rows
- Roux, rue or roué
- Rows vs rose
- Row vs row
- Royal “we”
- RSVP
- Rubberneck
- Rubenesque
- Rub someone the wrong way and rub someone up the wrong way
- Rub someone’s nose in it
- Rude vs. Rued
- Ruffle someone’s feathers
- Ruff vs. Rough – Spelling, Usage & Meaning
- Rule of thumb
- Rummy
- Rumor vs. Roomer
- Rumour or Rumor – Difference & Meaning
- Runaway vs. run away
- Rung vs. Wrung
- Running on empty and running on fumes
- Run It Up the Flagpole — Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Run Out the Clock – Origin & Meaning
- Run rings around someone and run circles around someone
- Run the Gauntlet – A Risky Situation or Corporal Punishment?
- Run-on sentences
- Rye vs wry
S
- Sabbatical vs sabbath
- Saccharin vs. saccharine
- Sachet vs. Sashay
- Sackcloth and ashes
- Sacred cow
- Sacrilege, sacrilegious
- Sac vs. Sack
- Sadist vs. Masochist vs. Sadomasochism – Difference & Definition
- Said
- Said the Actress to the Bishop – Meaning & Origin
- Sail vs. Sale – Homophones, Difference & Meaning
- Salacious
- Salient vs salience
- Saltwater vs. salt water
- Salt of the Earth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Salubrious vs lugubrious
- Salvage vs selvage or selvedge
- Same Difference – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Same old same old
- Samovar vs scimitar
- Sanatorium vs sanatarium
- Sanctimonious vs sanctify
- Sangfroid – Meaning & Examples
- Sanguine vs exsanguinate
- Sang vs sung
- Sanitise vs. Sanitize
- Sank vs. sunk
- Sans – Usage, Meaning & Definition
- Sarcasm
- Sarcophagus
- Sarcophagus vs mausoleum
- Sari vs sorry
- Sartorial vs satirical
- Satire vs satyr
- Satisficing vs satisfying
- Savanna vs. savannah
- Savant vs servant
- Saved By the Bell – Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Save For A Rainy Day – An Idiom For Financial Advice
- Save one’s bacon
- Saviour or Savior – Which One to Use?
- Savoir faire
- Savor vs. Saver
- Sawed vs. Sod
- Sawing Logs – An Innocent Phrase for Snoring
- Say cheese
- Say one’s peace vs piece
- Say When – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Scam or sham
- Scapegoat or Escape Goat – Origin & Meaning
- Scared vs scarred
- Scarfs vs. scarves
- Scatological
- Scavenger hunt
- Scavenger, scavenge
- Sceptic vs septic
- Sceptic vs. skeptic
- Schadenfreude – Usage & Meaning in English
- Schema or schematic
- Schizophrenia as an adjective
- Schmooze and shmooze
- Schmuck versus putz
- Scintilla
- Scion
- Scissors
- Scofflaw
- Scorched earth policy
- SCOTUS
- Scot-free
- Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel—How to Express Poor Quality
- Scrapped vs scraped
- Scratch the surface
- Screwball
- Scribens Review
- Scrimp vs skimp
- Scrip vs script
- Scrivener Review
- Scrumdiddlyumptious
- Scrummy
- Scuba
- Scull vs. Skull
- Sculpture vs sculptor
- Seam vs seem
- Sear vs. seer vs. sere
- Seasonable vs seasonal
- Seas, sees or seize
- Sea Change – A Slight Alteration or a Complete Transformation
- Secede vs. succeed
- Second Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Second Conditional – Examples & Worksheet
- Second string
- Second that emotion or notion or motion
- Second wind
- Second-Guess – Usage & Meaning
- Secret Santa
- Secret vs. secretive
- Secular vs sacred
- Security blanket
- Sedimentary vs sedentary
- Sediment vs sentiment
- Sedition vs sedation
- Seen Better Days – Meaning & Origin
- Seen vs. Scene – Homophones & Meaning
- See a Man About a Horse—A Classic Excuse
- See Eye to Eye – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
- See vs. Sea – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Segue vs Segway
- Seldomly – Meaning & Definition
- Selfie
- Self vs self
- Self-quarantine vs self-isolation
- Selling like hotcakes
- Semicolon vs. Period – Which One To Use?
- Seminal
- Semi-, hemi-, and demi-
- Semper fidelis
- Sensational vs sensationalistic
- Senses vs census
- Sense vs. Since vs. Cense – What’s the Difference?
- Sensual vs. sensuous
- Sentence Structure Types and Examples
- Sentience vs sapience
- Sentient vs sentiment
- Separate vs separate
- Separate vs. Seperate – What’s the Difference?
- Sepulcher, crypt, catacomb or mausoleum
- Sequacious
- Sequins vs sequence
- Seraphic
- Serf vs. Surf
- Series
- Serif vs seraph
- Serigraph vs lithograph
- Serious vs. Sirius
- Service (as a verb)
- Serviette or napkin
- Set in Stone, Carved in Stone or Written in Stone
- Set Up vs. Setup vs. Set-up
- Sever vs severe
- Sewer vs sewer
- Sew vs. Sow – What’s the difference?
- Shaggy-dog story
- Shake a Leg – Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Shake one’s head vs nod one’s head
- Shake vs. Sheikh
- Shall vs. will
- Shame vs ashamed
- Shanghai (as a verb)
- Shape up or ship out
- Sharable vs. shareable
- Shard or sherd
- Share and share alike vs per stirpes
- Sharp as a Tack—An Idiom for Being Mentally Alert
- Shat vs. shitted
- Shaved vs. shaven
- Shear vs. sheer
- Sheath vs. sheathe
- Shed vs. shedded
- Sheik, Chic or Sheek – What’s the Difference?
- Shelf vs. shelve
- Shellac, shellack
- Shell out
- Shell-shocked
- Shenanigans
- Sherbert vs. sherbet
- Shill vs chill
- Shill vs shell
- Shined or Shone – Difference, Definition and Examples
- Ships passing in the night
- Shiv
- Shoestring Budget – A Creative Expression for Limited Money
- Shoe vs. Shoo
- Shone vs shown
- Shooting Fish in a Barrel – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Shoot the Breeze – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Shoot Yourself in the Foot—An Expression of Self-DestructionÂ
- Shoo-in
- Shopping cart or buggy
- Shop till you drop
- Shore up
- Shore vs sure
- Short End of the Stick or Wrong End of the Stick
- Short Fuse – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Short Leash – Meaning and Origin
- Short shrift
- Shotgun approach and scattershot approach
- Shotgun Wedding – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Shot Across the Bow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Should have, should’ve or should of
- Shoveled/shoveling vs. shovelled/shovelling
- Showboat
- Showrunner
- Show of hands
- Show one’s cards and tip one’s hand
- Show one’s true colors
- Shrinking Violet – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Shriveled/Shriveling vs. Shrivelled/Shrivelling
- Shtick
- Shuffle off This Mortal Coil—Exploring the Afterlife
- Shutter vs. shudder
- Shut or close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- Shut-in
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Sic vs. sick
- Side hustle
- Side vs sighed
- Sight for Sore Eyes – Origin & Meaning
- Sight vs. site
- Signet vs. Cygnet
- Significant Other – Meaning & Origin
- Sign Up vs. Signup
- Sign vs sine
- Silicon vs. silicone
- Silva vs silver
- Silver lining
- Silver-tongued
- Simile
- Simple Future Tense – Examples & Worksheet
- Since vs because
- Sine die
- Sine qua non
- Singly vs singularly
- Sing for one’s supper
- Sink vs. Sync
- Sisyphean, Promethean or Herculean
- Site vs. Cite – What’s the Difference?
- Sitting Duck – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Sitting on a powder keg
- Sit at the feet of someone
- Sit vs set
- Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other – Breaking Down Similarity
- Six ways from Sunday
- Sizable or sizeable
- Skating on thin ice and on thin ice
- Skeleton in the closet and skeleton in the cupboard
- Skid row vs skid road
- Skilful vs. skillful
- Skunkworks
- Slack vs slake
- Slam dunk
- Slap-happy
- Slash (Virgule) Punctuation Rules With Examples
- Slave driver
- Slayed or slew
- Slay vs. Sleigh
- Sledge vs sludge
- Sled, sledge, sleigh and toboggan
- Sleep like a top
- Sleep with the Fishes—A Helpful Idiom or a Trouble Spot
- Sleight of hand
- Sleight vs. Slight
- Slipshod
- Slip of the Tongue – Origin & Meaning
- Slough vs slough
- Slough vs. Slew
- Slow and steady wins the race
- Slow vs. Sloe
- Slumgullion and goulash
- Smack of
- Small Potatoes – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Smarmy
- Smartphone vs smart phone
- Smarty-pants and smarty-boots
- Smart alec and smart aleck
- Smelled vs. Smelt – Difference & Meaning
- Smell a rat
- Smite, smote, smitten
- Smokey vs. smoky
- Smoke and Mirrors – Meaning and Origin
- Smooth vs. Smoothe vs. Smoothen
- Smorgasbord
- Snake in the Grass – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Snake oil, snake-oil salesman
- Sneaked vs. snuck
- Snipe hunt
- Snitch
- Snobbery or snobbishness
- Soapbox
- Soared vs. Sword
- Soar vs sore
- Sob sister and sob story
- Soccer mom and hockey mom
- Social vs sociable
- Sojourn vs adjourn
- Solder vs soldier
- Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, & Sailors – What’s the Difference?
- Sole vs. Soul
- Soliloquy vs monologue
- Solitaire and patience games
- Somber vs. sombre
- Somebody vs. someone
- Someday vs. some day
- Someplace vs. some place
- Somersault
- Something has legs
- Something, Anything, Nothing & Everything (With Worksheet)
- Some and Any Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Some odd
- Some Time vs Sometime vs Sometimes – What’s the Difference?
- Some vs sum
- Some vs. Any – Usage, List of Examples & Exercises
- Some way vs. someway
- Sooner rather than later
- Sorbet
- Sorted vs. Sordid
- Sort Of – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- SOS and Mayday
- Sot vs. Sought
- Sounding Board – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Sound bite
- Sound like a broken record
- Soup up
- Sour Grapes – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sow vs sow
- Sow wild oats
- So to speak
- Spaces between sentences
- Spade vs. Spayed
- Spake
- Spanish fly
- Spare the rod; spoil the child
- Spartan
- Spatter vs. splatter
- Spat or spitted
- Speaks volumes
- Speak for yourself
- Speak now or forever hold your peace
- Speak of the Devil—From Phrase to Folklore
- Speak to
- Speak truth to power
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Spearhead – Usage & Definition
- Speciality vs. specialty
- Species
- Specious vs spurious
- Speck vs. Spec
- Specter vs. spectre
- Spectra vs. spectrums
- Sped vs. speeded
- Spelling bee
- Spelling Strategies and Techniques For Students and Adults
- Spelt or Spelled – Difference & Examples
- Spend a penny
- Spic and span vs spick and span
- Spiel or Schpiel – Meaning, Spelling & Examples
- Spiffy
- Spilled vs. spilt
- Spill the beans
- Spinster
- Spin a Yarn – Origin & Meaning
- Spin one’s wheels
- Spitballing – Meaning and Origin
- Spite vs respite
- Spitz vs. Spits
- Spit and Image, Spitting Image, or Splitting Image
- Split Infinitive – Usage, Rules and Examples
- Split the difference
- Spoiled vs. spoilt
- Spoof
- Spoonerism vs malapropism
- Spoopy and creppy
- Spork
- Spouse vs espouse
- Spreaded
- Spruce Up – Origin and Meaning
- Spry
- Spur of the Moment – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Spur vs spurn
- Spur vs. spurn
- Square meal
- Squinch
- Stabbed in the Back – Uncovering Betrayal
- Stadia vs. stadiums
- Staff vs. Staph
- Staid vs stayed
- Stained glass
- Stair vs stare
- Stake vs. Steak
- Stalking Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Stanch vs. staunch
- Standby vs. stand by
- Stand alone vs standalone
- Stand one’s ground and hold one’s ground
- Stand the test of time
- Stand up vs prop up
- Starry-eyed and stars in one’s eyes
- Start from scratch
- Star-crossed
- State of the art
- Stationary vs. stationery
- Stative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Stative Verbs – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Statue vs statute
- Status quo
- Statute of limitations
- Stat vs now
- Stave off
- Staycation – Meaning & Etymology
- Stay on top of
- Steal someone’s thunder
- Steal vs steel
- STEM
- Stem-winder or stemwinder
- Step into the breach
- Step up to the Plate – Assuming the Challenge
- Step vs. Steppe
- Sticker shock
- Sticks and stones
- Sticktoitiveness
- Sticky fingers
- Stick a fork in it
- Stick one’s neck out
- Stick out like a sore thumb
- Stick to, stick by, or stick with
- Stick-in-the-Mud – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Stiff Upper Lip – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Stigma, stigmas or stigmata
- Still Waters Run Deep – Origin and Meaning
- Stint or Stent – Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Stir the Pot or Stirring the Pot – Meaning and Origin
- Stir up a hornets’ nest and stir up a hornet’s nest
- Stir-Crazy – Origin, Usage and Meaning
- Stockholm syndrome
- Stocking stuffer and stocking filler
- Stock vs stalk
- Stock, shares
- Stock-still
- Stolen vs. Stollen
- Stomping ground and stamping ground
- Stonewall – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Stone cold and stone-cold
- Stool pigeon
- Stop and Smell the Roses — Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Storey vs. Story – What’s the Difference?
- Storm in a Teacup – Excessive Enthusiasm or Unnecessary Fuss?
- Straight and Narrow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Straight A’s – Scoring the Highest Grades
- Straight from the horse’s mouth
- Straight from the shoulder
- Straight Shooter – An Idiom For Being Straightforward
- Straight vs. strait
- Straitjacket
- Strait-laced
- Stratagem vs. strategy
- Straw man and man of straw
- Strike While the Iron Is Hot – Meaning and Origin
- Striped/striping vs stripped/stripping
- Strived, striven, strove
- Strop vs strap
- Style vs stile
- Sty vs. Stye
- Subconscious vs. unconscious
- Subject and Object Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Subject and Object Questions Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Subject and Object Questions — Difference and Examples
- Subject to vs subjected to
- Subject vs. Object Pronouns – Usage, Difference & Examples
- Subject-verb agreement
- Subjugated vs subjected to
- Subjunctive Mood – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Suborn
- Subpoena
- Substantial vs. substantive
- Subtext
- Subtle vs. subtil
- Sub rosa vs sub-rosa
- Sub vs infra
- Succor or Succour vs. Sucker
- Suede vs. Swayed
- Suffice to Say or Suffice It to Say – Meaning & Examples
- Sugarcoat
- Sugar Daddy – A Symbol of Wealth or an Expression of Companionship
- Suite vs. Sweet
- Suit vs suite
- Sui generis
- Sulfur vs. sulphur
- Sulk vs skulk
- Summary vs. summery
- Summa cum laude or magna cum laude
- Summons and summonses
- Sunday driver
- Sunday vs. Sundae – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Sun vs. Son – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Superlatives – Definition, Examples, & Worksheet
- Superlative Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Supersede or supercede
- Super vs supra
- Super vs ultra
- Supply and demand
- Supposably
- Suppose To or Supposed To – Usage and Examples
- Surely vs surly
- Surgeon vs sturgeon
- Surge vs. Serge
- Surrogacy
- Surveil
- Suspect vs suspect
- Suspect, person of interest or perpetrator
- Svengali
- Swanning around and swanning about
- Swan song
- Swashbuckle
- Swatch vs swath
- Swath vs. swathe
- Sweat vs. sweated
- Sweeped or swept
- Sweep something under the rug and sweep something under the carpet
- Sweeten the pot
- Sweet Tooth – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Swing for the Fences—Idiomatic Power Play
- Sword of Damocles
- Sycophant
- Symbolic vs symbiotic
- Symbol vs. Cymbal – Meaning, Homophones and Spelling
- Synchronise or synchronize
- Synonyms
- Synonym vs cinnamon
- Systematic vs systematical
- Systematic vs. systemic
T
- Tabula rasa
- Tacit vs taciturn
- Tacks vs. Tax
- Tack vs. tact
- Tad bit vs tidbit
- Tag Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Tag Questions – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Tail vs. tale
- Tail Wagging the Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Takeaway and takeout
- Taken Back or Taken Aback – Which One to Use?
- Take a back seat
- Take a Bath – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Take a Gander – Meaning & Examples
- Take a Hike – Meaning and Origin
- Take a knee
- Take a powder
- Take a shine to
- Take a Shot—Encouraging Bold Moves
- Take a toll and take its toll
- Take for granted or take for granite
- Take it or leave it
- Take It With A Grain (Pinch) Of Salt – Behind The Skepticism
- Take No Prisoners – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Take over vs. takeover
- Take someone for a ride
- Take That to the Bank—A Guide to Teaching Reliable Statements
- Take the bull by the horns and grab the bull by the horns
- Take the cake
- Take the Fifth and plead the Fifth
- Take the High Road – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Take the mickey out of someone
- Take the reins
- Take to the cleaners
- Talk a blue streak and curse a blue streak
- Talk Is Cheap – Know The Difference Between Words and Action
- Talk of the Town – Origin & Meaning
- Talk out of both sides of one’s mouth
- Talk to the Hand – Origin & Meaning
- Talk turkey
- Tamper vs temper
- Tanker vs tankard
- Tariff
- Taro vs tarot
- Tartar or tartare
- Tar and feather
- Tar baby
- Taser
- Tattletale vs telltale
- Taught vs. Taut
- Taught vs. Tot
- Taupe vs tope
- Taut vs taunt
- Teacher’s Pet—From Classroom to Culture
- Team vs. Teem
- Tear vs tier
- Tear vs. Tare
- Tear vs. Tear – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Tease out
- Teas vs. Tease
- Tea vs tee
- Technicolor yawn
- Teeth vs. teethe
- Teetotaler, teetotaller
- Telegram vs. telegraph
- Tell It to the Marines – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Temblor, tremblor or trembler
- Tempus Fugit – Origin & Meaning in English
- Tenant vs. tenet
- Tent vs. Tint
- Tenure vs tenor
- Terminal Punctuation – How to End a Sentence
- Terminate
- Tern vs. Turn
- Terra firma
- Terrific vs terrifying
- Terroir and terror
- Testament vs. testimony
- Testing the Waters – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Test Your Punctuation Skills (Quizzes With Answers)
- Tete-a-tete
- Textish
- Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day
- That or Who – When and How to Use Correctly?
- That vs. which
- That which
- That’s All She Wrote – An Unexpected End Or Finality
- Theater vs. Theatre – What’s the Difference?
- Their, them, themselves, they (as singular pronouns)
- Them’s the breaks or brakes
- Then vs. Than – When to Use Each (With Examples)
- Therefore vs therefor
- Therefore – Usage and Examples in a Sentence
- There Is vs. There Are Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- There Is vs. There Are — Difference and Worksheet
- There’s no free lunch
- There, Their, and They’re – Differences and Examples (With Quiz)
- Thesauri or thesaurusus
- The Ampersand (&) – How and When to Use It
- The APA Advantage—Elevate Your Writing
- The Ball Is in Your Court—A Phrase of Responsibility or Challenge
- The Best of Both Worlds – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- The big picture
- The birds and the bees
- The Bronx
- The Caret Symbol: How to Use It and What It Means
- The Clock Is Ticking or Time Is Ticking – Origin & Meaning
- The Customer Is Always Right – Origin, Meaning & Explanation
- The Devil Is in the Details – Origin & Meaning
- The die is cast
- The end justifies the means
- The exception that proves the rule
- The face that launched a thousand ships
- The fair sex and the fairer sex
- The Game is Afoot – Meaning, Origin and Usage
- The genie is out of the bottle
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs — Meaning & Origin
- The handwriting on the wall or the writing on the wall
- The Hill You Want to Die On – Meaning and Origin
- The Importance of Punctuation
- The Interrobang Punctuation Mark(‽) – How to Use it Properly
- The jaws of life
- The Jig Is Up – A Surprising Insight into English Deceptions
- The jury is out
- The Late – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- The lesser of two evils
- The Meaning of Step on Toes and How to Offend Someone
- The nature of the beast
- The penny dropped
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The pick of the litter
- The Pilcrow or Paragraph Symbol ¶ (Keyboard Shortcuts)
- The Pipe Symbol (|): A Comprehensive Guide
- The pot calling the kettle black
- The quick and the dead
- The Road Less Traveled – Daring to be Different
- The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions – Origin & Meaning
- The rub
- The seven deadly sins
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease
- The Straw Man Fallacy: Meaning and Examples
- The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back – Series Of Unpleasant Events
- The Third Degree – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- The vs thee
- The whole megillah
- The World Is Your Oyster—Exploring Unlimited Possibilities
- The worm has turned
- The $64,000 question
- Think on one’s feet
- Think outside the box
- Third Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Third Conditional – Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
- Third rail
- Third Time’s the Charm—The Power of Persistence
- Third Wheel and Fifth Wheel – Meaning & Origin
- This Ain’t My First Rodeo – From Novice To Veteran
- This, That, These, and Those Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Thong or flip-flop
- Thorn in the Flesh—More Than a Painful Idiom
- Thoroughbred vs purebred
- Thrall
- Three Sheets to the Wind – Navigating the ‘Drunk’ Language
- Three-Ring Circus – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Threshold or threshhold
- Throes vs. Throws
- Throne vs thrown
- Through and through or thru and thru
- Through vs. Threw – Which One to Use and When
- Through vs. Thru – Difference, Usage & Examples
- Throwing In The Towel – The Symbol of Surrender
- Throwing Shade – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- Throw a curveball and throw a curve
- Throw good money after bad
- Throw My Hat in the Ring – Meaning and Origin
- Throw or toss someone a bone
- Throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Throw under the bus
- Thrust, thrusted
- Thumbs up and thumbs down
- Thumb one’s nose and cock a snook
- Thusly
- Thyme vs. Time
- Tickled Pink – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Tic vs. tick
- Tiddlywinks and tiddleywinks
- Tide Someone Over vs. Tied Someone Over – Origin & Definition
- Tide vs tied
- Tie the Knot or Tying the Knot – Meaning & Origin
- Tiger by the Tail – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Tilde Symbol (~) Definition, Usage, and Examples
- Till the Cows Come Home – From Now to Infinity
- Till, until, ’til
- Tilting at windmills
- Timber or timbre
- Timeout vs. time out
- Time heals all wounds
- Time waits for no man
- Timpanum, timpani, tympanum, tympani
- Tinder vs tender
- Tinker’s damn and tinker’s dam
- Tinseltown
- Tinsel vs. Tensile
- Tiny house and tiny home
- Tips for Editing Your Research Paper (Checklist Included)
- Tip of the iceberg
- Tip one’s hat and tip one’s cap
- Tire vs. tyre
- Titan vs. Tighten
- Titles of Works – Punctuation Guide
- Title Capitalization Rules – Ultimate Guide
- Titter vs titer
- Titular
- Tit for Tat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Tmesis
- TMI
- Toad vs. Towed
- Toe the line
- Toe vs. Tow
- Toffee-Nosed – Origin & Meaning
- Toilette
- Toile vs toil
- Toile vs tulle
- Told vs. Tolled
- Tolerance vs. toleration
- Tole vs. Toll
- Tomayto, tomahto and potayto, potahto
- Tomfoolery
- Tongue-in-Cheek – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Tongue-tied
- Ton vs. Tonne – What’s the Difference?
- Tool vs tulle
- Tooth and Nails – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Toot Sweet – Meaning and Origin
- Toot Your Own Horn or Blow Your Own Horn — Meaning and Examples
- Too big for one’s britches or breeches and too big for one’s boots
- Too many cooks spoil the broth
- Too Many Irons in the Fire – Beyond Multitasking
- Too much of a good thing
- Topography vs. typography
- Top banana and second banana
- Top dog
- Torrent vs torrid
- Torturous vs. tortuous
- Tor vs. Tore
- Totaled/totaling vs. totalled/totalling
- Touche or touché
- Touch and go
- Touch base
- Tough row to hoe
- Tough vs tuff
- Tourist trap
- Tour de force
- Tout
- Toward vs. Towards – What’s the Difference?
- Toweled or towelled
- Towhead
- Toxicology vs. toxology
- To a T
- To boot
- To Cool One’s Heels – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- To err is human; to forgive, divine
- To Fan the Flames – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- To Feather One’s Nest – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- To Get Wind of — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- To Harp On – The Persistence of Complaint
- To hear crickets
- To say the least and to say the least of it
- To the bitter end
- To the hilt
- To the nines
- To the victor belong the spoils
- To vs. Too – The Difference With Examples
- To wit
- Track and field and athletics
- Tractable vs trackable
- Tract vs. Track – Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Tragedy vs travesty
- Trainer or trainor
- Training wheels vs stabilisers
- Traitor vs trader
- Translucent vs. transparent
- Transparent, translucent and opaque
- Transpire – Definition & Examples
- Transport vs. transportation
- Trap vs entrap
- Travel, Traveled & Travelling – What’s the Difference?
- Trawl vs. troll
- Treasurys
- Treatise vs treaties
- Treble vs. triple
- Triage
- Trial By Fire – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Trick or treat vs trick-or-treat
- Tried and True – Meaning and Origin
- Trip the Light Fantastic—From Dance Floor to Language
- Troglodyte
- Troika
- Trolling
- Troop vs. troupe
- Trouper vs. Trooper – Meaning, Difference & Examples
- Truck with
- Truculent
- Trump card
- Trussed vs. Trust
- Trustee vs. trusty
- Tsk Tsk or Tisk Tisk – Meaning & Examples
- Tsunami vs tidal wave
- Tumor vs. tumour
- Tunneled, Tunneling vs. Tunnelled, Tunnelling – What’s the Difference?
- Turban vs. Turbine
- Turbid, turgid, torpid
- Turnabout is fair play
- Turncoat
- Turnkey vs turn key
- Turn a blind eye
- Turn heads and turn one’s head
- Turn Over a New Leaf – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Turn over vs turnover
- Turn the Other Cheek – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Turtle, tortoise, terrapin
- Tussie-mussie vs nosegay
- Tutor vs. Tudor
- Twee
- Tween
- Tween or teen
- Twiddle one’s thumbs
- Twist one’s arm
- Two can play at that game
- Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail – Origin and Meaning
- Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Proverb, Meaning & Examples
- Two’s company, three’s a crowd
- Two-bit
- Types of Proofreading—Beyond the Basics
- Types of Sentences With Examples –Â Declarative, Imperative, Exclamatory, and Interrogative
- T-shirt, t-shirt, tee-shirt, tee shirt
U
- Uber
- Ubiquitous
- Udder vs. utter
- Ugly duckling
- Ulterior motive
- Umbrage
- Unawares
- Uncle Sam
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncountable Nouns – List, Definition & Examples
- Underdog
- Underlie or underline
- Understanding “Lay of the Land” – Your Ultimate Guide
- Underwater vs. Under Water
- Underway vs. under way
- Under false pretenses and under false pretences
- Under My Skin – Meaning & Origin
- Under one’s belt
- Under one’s nose
- Under one’s breath
- Under someone’s thumb
- Under the auspices of
- Under the table
- Under the Weather – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Under Wraps Meaning – When and How To Convey Secrets
- Undoubtably vs. undoubtedly
- Undo vs. Undue
- Unexceptionable vs unexceptional
- Unfamous or infamous
- Unionized vs unionized
- Union Jack
- Unique
- United States (plural or singular?)
- Unkempt, unkept
- Unknown quantity
- Unpack
- Unputdownable
- Unsung hero
- Until one is blue in the face
- Until the last dog is hung
- Untoward
- Unwitting vs unwilling
- Upfront or Up Front – What’s the Difference?
- Upload vs download
- Upmost vs. utmost
- Upper crust
- Upper Hand (or Have the Upper Hand) – Meaning & Origin
- Upset the applecart
- Upshot
- Up and at ‘em vs up and Adam or atom
- Up in arms
- Up one’s sleeve and an ace up one’s sleeve
- Up the creek and up a creek
- Up to date
- Up to Scratch – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Up to snuff
- Up to Speed – Meaning and Origin
- Urban legend and urban myth
- Urban vs urbane
- Urban, suburban and rural
- Used To or Use To? – Meaning and Examples
- Use vs. Utilize – What’s the Difference?
- Using Apostrophes To Show Possession and Ownership
- Using Commas With Introductory Phrases
- Using the Idiom Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish Correctly
- Usually always
- U.S. state demonyms
V
- Vacuous vs. vapid
- Vagabond and vagrant
- Vain, vein, and vane
- Valedictorian and salutatorian
- Valentine’s Day
- Vale, vail, or veil
- Vamoose
- Vanguard
- Variance vs variants
- Varied vs various
- Variety Is the Spice of Life—Going Beyond Monotony
- Variety vs varietal
- Vary vs. Very – Homophones, Usage and Difference
- Vaudeville
- Vax
- Vegetarian vs vegan
- Venal vs venial
- Vent one’s spleen
- Veracity vs. voracity
- Verbatim vs paraphrase
- Verbiage
- Verbs and Prepositions — List, Examples and Worksheet
- Verbs Followed By Gerunds – List, Examples & Worksheet
- Verb Tenses – Uses, Examples & Worksheet
- Verklempt
- Vernacular – Definition & Examples in a Sentence
- Verses vs. versus
- Vertex vs. vortex
- Vertigo vs vertiginous
- Very
- Vested
- Veteran vs veterinarian
- Vice versa
- Vice vs. Vise – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Vicious vs. viscous
- Vicissitude
- Vigilant vs vigilante
- Vigor, vigour and vigorous
- Vim and vigor
- Viral vs virile
- Virtual reality
- Vis-a-vis
- Vitiate
- Vittle vs vital
- Viz. – Usage, Meaning and Abbreviation
- Voicemail
- Voluptuous vs voluminous
- Vouchsafe
- Vox populi
W
- Wack vs. whack
- Waddle vs. wattle
- Wade vs. Weighed
- Wagon vs. waggon
- Wainscot or chair rail
- Waist vs. waste
- Waiting in the wings
- Wait for the other shoe to drop
- Wait vs. Weight
- Waiver vs. waver
- Waive vs. wave
- Wake up and smell the coffee
- Wake vs awake
- Wake-Up Call – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Walking on eggshells
- Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes
- Walk vs. Wok
- Wallflower – Idiom, Meaning & Definition
- Wallop and pack a wallop
- Wander vs. wonder
- Wane, wax
- Wangle vs wrangle
- Wanton vs. wonton
- Ware vs. Wear vs. Where – Difference in Meaning & Spelling
- Warm the cockles of one’s heart
- Warrantee vs. warranty
- Warts and all
- Wart vs wort
- Wary vs. weary
- Washed up or all washed up
- Wash one’s hands of
- Wassail
- Waste not, want not
- Was vs. Were – Usage, Examples and Worksheet
- Watch the birdie
- Waterloo or meet one’s waterloo
- Watershed moment
- Water under the bridge
- Watt vs what
- Wave the White Flag – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Weakest Link – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Weak vs. Week
- Wean vs. Ween
- Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve
- Wear the trousers and wear the pants
- Weather vs. Whether vs. Wether – What’s the Difference?
- Weaved, wove, woven
- Website vs. web page
- Web site vs. website
- Weekend
- Weekend vs weakened
- Weigh In – Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Welcome to the Club—An Idiom Exploring Solidarity
- Well-being vs. Wellbeing vs. Well Being
- Well-Heeled – Usage, Origin & Meaning
- Wench vs winch
- Wend vs wind
- Were vs we’re
- Wet behind the ears
- Wet Blanket – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Wet one’s whistle
- Wet vs. whet
- We’d vs. Weed
- We’ll vs. Wheel
- We’re not in Kansas anymore
- Whacks vs. Wax
- Whac-A-Mole
- Whale, Wail or Wale
- Whatnot or What Not – Usage & Meaning
- What Are Blood Brothers? – Origin & Meaning
- What Are Bloopers? – Meaning & Examples
- What are Brownie Points? – Origin & Meaning
- What are Clauses? Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- What Are Collocations? – Examples & Worksheet
- What are Conjunctions? Rules & Examples (with Worksheet)
- What Are Curds and Whey? – Meaning & Origin
- What Are Gooseflesh, Goosebumps, or Goose Pimples?
- What are Indefinite Articles? – Examples and Worksheet
- What are Indefinite Pronouns? Worksheet and Examples
- What Are Intensive Pronouns? Definition & Examples (Worksheet Included)
- What Are Interrogative Pronouns? Worksheet & Examples
- What Are Irish Twins? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Are Nosebleed Seats? – Meaning and Origin
- What Are Nouns? Definition & Examples (With Worksheet)
- What are Personal Pronouns? Examples & Worksheet
- What are Prepositions? Definition & Examples (with Worksheet)
- What Are Pronouns? Rules & Examples
- What Does Ample Mean? – Usage & Definition
- What Does a Copy Editor Do and How to Become One?
- What Does Grudge Mean?
- What Does Half-Baked Mean?
- What Does Leeway Mean? – Usage & Examples
- What Does No Quarter Mean? – Origin and Definition
- What Does Parkour Mean? – Definition & Spelling
- What Does Sanction Mean? – Definition & Examples
- What Does the Abbreviation A.K.A. or AKA Mean?
- What Does Voilà Mean? – Spelling & Examples
- What Does “Decision in Process” Mean?
- What Does “In Toto” Mean?
- What Does “Lean In” Mean?
- What Does [Sic] Mean? – Definition & Examples
- What in tarnation
- What is Academic Writing? Common Types With Examples
- What Is Adulting? – As a Verb & Meaning
- What Is Ad Infinitum? – Usage & Meaning
- What Is an Adverb? Adverb Examples & Definition
- What is an Ellipsis and How to Use It (With Examples)
- What Is an Ideologue? – Usage & Meaning
- What Is an Oxford comma? Importance & Examples
- What Is an Uphill Battle? – Meaning and Origin
- What is a Backslash (\) Symbol?
- What Is a Barn Burner? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Benedict Arnold? – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Bromance? – Meaning and Examples
- What Is a Bumper Crop? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is a Bum Steer? – Origin and Meaning
- What Is a Byproduct? – Definition and Examples
- What Is a Cavalier? – Usage, Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Charnel House? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Chav? – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- What is a Complex Sentence? Definition and Examples
- What Is a Conundrum? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Country Mile? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Dad Bod? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Dais? – Meaning & Pronunciation
- What Is a Dear John Letter? – Origin and Meaning
- What Is a Determiner? Types and Examples (with Worksheet)
- What Is a Dilemma? – Usage and Meaning
- What Is a Donnybrook? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a False Flag? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Four-Letter Word? – Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Glitch? – Usage & Meaning
- What Is a Goober? – Origin, Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Good Samaritan? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Goose Egg? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Grand Slam? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Hat Trick? – Meaning & Origin
- What is a Hedera Punctuation Mark and What Does it Do?
- What Is a Hie? – Definition and Meaning
- What Is a Honeymoon? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Hootenanny? – Meaning and Definition
- What Is a Juggalo? – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Lab Rat? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a LARP? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a La Carte? – Meaning and Examples
- What Is a Lei? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Lightbulb Moment? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is a Loophole? – Meaning, Origin & Examples
- What Is a Lowlife? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Mary Sue? – Meaning & Origin
- What is a Mcjob? – Definition & Examples
- What Is a Molt or Moult? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Mulligan? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Mumu, Muumuu or Moomoo Dress? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is a Namesake? – Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Participle? – Huge List of Examples
- What Is a Peanut Gallery? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Pet Peeve? – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- What Is a Potter’s Field? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is a Prodigal Son? – Meaning, Definition and Origin
- What Is a Raconteur? – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- What Is a Ringleader? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Round Robin? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Scrooge? – Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Shell Game? – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- What is a Skinflint? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Skort? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Smoking Gun? – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Snark? – Usage & Definition
- What Is a Tongue-Lashing? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is a Trope or Tropes? – Definition and Examples
- What Is a Verb? | Verb Examples & Types
- What Is a White Lie? – Definition, Origin and Examples
- What Is Belated? – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- What Is Blackball? – Meaning & Origin
- What Is Certifiable? – Meaning and Examples
- What Is Chock Full? – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- What Is Christmas Adam? – Meaning & Origin
- What Is Chump Change?—Origin & Meaning
- What is Content Editing?
- What is Copy Editing – Definition and Examples
- What Is Cosplay? – Origin, Meaning & Definition
- What Is Dole Out? – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- What Is Due Diligence? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is Editing?—Beyond Typos and Grammar
- What is Editorial Content and Why is It Important?
- What Is Forte? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is Graveyard Shift?—Origin & Meaning
- What is Kith and Kin – Origin & Meaning
- What Is Line Editing? Definition & Examples (with Checklist)
- What Is Mea Culpa? – Usage, Meaning & Definition
- What Is Mudslinging? – Meaning and Origin
- What Is Navel Gazing? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is Outsource? – Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- What Is Over the Hill? – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- What Is Pig Latin? – Origin, Meaning & Examples
- What is Present Simple Tense – Examples & Worksheet
- What Is Proofreading—From Typos to Perfection
- What Is Requiem? – Definition & Meaning
- What Is Simpatico? – Usage & Meaning in English
- What is Simple Past Tense? Uses & Examples (With Worksheet)
- What Is Syntax in English? – Definition, Rules & Examples
- What Is the Domino Effect? – Meaning & Definition
- What is the Objective Case? – Objective Case Pronoun Examples
- What Is the Seven-Year Itch? – Meaning & Origin
- What Is The Witching Hour? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is Toss Up or Toss-Up? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is Trepidation? – Definition & Examples
- What Is Window Shopping? – Meaning & Examples
- What’s a Big Shot? – Origin & Meaning
- What’s the catch?
- Wheal or Weal vs. Wheel
- Wheelhouse
- Wheel and deal
- Whence vs. from whence
- When All Is Said and Done – Origin & Meaning
- When Pigs Fly—A Funny Proverb or an Unachievable Thing?
- When Push Comes to Shove – Meaning and Origin
- When the cat’s away the mice will play
- When the Chips Are Down—Facing Tough Times
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going
- When to Use a Comma Before Which
- When To Use A Comma Before “Or”
- When to Use Do, Does, Am, Is & Are? (Worksheet Included)
- When to Use Single Quotes vs. Double Quotes (With Examples)
- When to Use Square Brackets […] – With Examples
- When to Use “A” or “An”
- Whereas – Usage and Examples in a Sentence
- Wherewithal
- Where There Is a Will, There’s a Way – Origin and Meaning
- Whet one’s appetite vs wet one’s appetite
- Which vs. Witch – What’s the difference? (Worksheet Included)
- Whig vs wig
- While away vs. wile away
- While vs. Wile
- Whilst – When & How to Use Correctly
- Whine vs. Wine – Meaning & Spelling
- Whinge
- Whiny, whiney, whinny, Whinney
- Whippersnapper
- Whipping Boy—An Idiom Beyond Punishment
- Whipsaw
- Whirling dervish
- Whirl v. Whorl
- Whir or Whirr vs. Were
- Whiskey vs. whisky
- Whistle stop and whistle-stop tour
- Whistling Past the Graveyard – Origin and Meaning
- Whitesmoke vs. Grammarly – Whitesmoke Review
- Whitewash
- White Christmas
- White Collar vs. Blue Collar – Meaning & Difference
- Whiz, whizz, wiz
- Whoa vs. Woe – Spelling, Meaning & Examples
- Whoever vs. whomever
- Whole ball of wax
- Whole kit and caboodle
- Whole nine yards
- Wholistic and holistic
- Whoop vs. whup
- Whose vs. Who’s – Usage, Difference and Examples
- Who vs. Whom – Usage, Rules and Examples (+ Printable Exercise)
- Who’s Who
- Why Do People Yell “Geronimo!” – Meaning & Origin
- Why isn’t Grammarly Working in Google Docs?
- Why is Grammarly So Expensive?
- Why Is It Called a Charley Horse? – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Wicked vs wicked
- Wide Berth – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Widow’s peak
- Widow, widower
- Wiki
- Wild goose chase
- Wilful vs. willful
- Willy-Nilly – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Will Or Be Going To – Explanation, Examples & Worksheet
- Will vs. Would – Difference, Examples & Worksheet
- Will-o’-the-wisp
- Wind vs. Wind – Heteronyms, Meaning & Definition
- Wing It – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Wink vs. Blink – What’s the Difference?
- Winningest
- Wintery vs wintry
- Win-win or lose-lose
- Wiseacre
- Wise guy and wiseguy
- Wish Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Witch hunt
- Wither vs. whither
- Without Further Ado vs. Without Further Adieu
- With all due respect
- With egg on one’s face
- With one’s tail between one’s legs
- Wit vs. whit
- Wobble vs warble
- Woke Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed – Meaning and Origin
- Wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Womp womp
- Wonder vs. wonderment
- Wonkish, wonky
- Wont
- Wont vs won’t
- Wont vs. Want – What’s the Difference?
- Won vs. One – Homophones & Meaning
- Wood vs would
- Woolen vs. woollen
- Woolgathering
- Words to Use After a Semicolon – Can I Use and or But?
- Wordtune vs Grammarly
- Word and Whirred
- Word to the wise
- Word-of-Mouth – Usage, Origin & Meaning
- Workout vs. work out
- Work Cut Out for You – Meaning and Origin
- Work in progress vs work in process
- Work like a charm
- Work wonders and wonder-worker
- World vs whirled
- Worn or Warn – Homophones, Meaning and Examples
- Worrywart and worryguts
- Worse comes to worst
- Worse for Wear – Beyond Tired and Disheveled
- Worst vs. Wurst
- Worth one’s salt
- Would have, would’ve or would of
- Would just as soon or assume
- Wound vs wound
- Wrap one’s head around
- Wrath vs. Rath
- Wreak Havoc or Wreaking Havoc – Usage, Meaning & Origin
- Wreak vs wreck
- Wreath vs. wreathe
- Wreck vs. reck
- Wrench and spanner
- Wright vs write
- Writer’s block
- Write-off vs. write off
- Writing in First Person – Examples & Worksheet
- Writing in First, Second, and Third Person – Ultimate Guide (Worksheet Included)
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- Wrong side of the tracks
- Wrong vs. wrongly
- Wrote vs rote
- Wunderkind
- WWJD
X
Y
- Yada yada
- Yam vs sweet potato
- Yanking Your Chain—Misleading or Playful?
- Yea, yeah, yay
- Yester
- Yiddish
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- Yoke vs. yolk
- YOLO
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- Youth or youths
- You can lead a horse to water
- You can’t fight city hall
- You Reap What You Sow – Meaning and Origin
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- Yuletide
- Y’all
- Y’all vs. Yawl
Z
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- ‘L’, L, el (Chicago trains)
- ‘Monkey Business’ Idiom: The Art Of Trickery and Lies
- ‘Tis the season
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- -able and -ible
- -emia or -aemia
- -Esque Suffix – Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- -gate Suffix
- -Holic, -Oholic, and -Aholic – Suffix, Meaning & Examples
- -phile and -phobe Suffix
- -Wise Suffix
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