CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

Take a look at these two sentences – one of them contains a mistake: I poured over book after book. We pored over the catalogues. Are you uncertain which one is right? There are a lot of words in English that look or sound alike but have very different meanings, such as pore and pour or flaunt and flout. It’s easy to get them confused and most electronic spellcheckers won’t be much help in this type of situation: they can tell you if a word has been spelled wrongly but they can’t generally flag up the misuse of a correctly spelled word. Here’s a list of pairs of words that cause people problems: Pour:  to flow or cause to flow Pore:  a tiny opening; to study something closely Flaunt: to display ostentatiously Flout: to disregard a rule Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com

 

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS Take a look at these two sentences one of them contains a mistake: I poured over book after book. We pored over the catalogues. Are you uncertain which one is right? There are a lot of words in English that look or sound alike but have very different meanings, such as pore and pour or flaunt and flout. Its easy to get them confused and most electronic spellcheckers wont be much help in this type of situation: they can tell you if a word has been spelled wrongly but they cant generally flag up the misuse of a correctly spelled word. Heres a list of pairs of words that cause people problems: Pour: to flow or cause to flow Pore: a tiny opening; to study something closely Flaunt: to display ostentatiously Flout: to disregard a rule Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com