The Roots of English Digging up the past for meanings One of the best things for any writer to do is expand his or her vocabulary. Writing that relies on a limited set of words becomes tiresome for readers — unless the book is by Dr. Seuss. The quickest way…
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English words evolved from a variety of other languages. Worse, how we pronounce words has continued to change, so phonetic spelling is problematic. Yes, once we really did pronounce the k and g sounds in knight. The following is a list of words commonly misspelled or confused with other words.…