commonly mistaken words + vocabulary

Emanate and - erm - what? from loiswakeman 308 days old

Hot on the heels of the last post, another misplaced word, except I am not sure quite what the writer meant. "Microsoft has developed BlueTrack - the ...

Discrete and discreet from loiswakeman 579 days old

"Very discrete shipping and billing" - spam message subject Actually, what the twerp is suggesting is discretion, not discreteness, for his/her dubious ...

Rein and reign from loiswakeman 595 days old

"November: With the presidential election looming, George Bush prepares reluctantly to relinquish the reigns of power " - Practical Builder magazine's ...

Exasperate and exacerbate from loiswakeman 601 days old

"Dr Charlesworth added that lack of trust about SUDS has also been exasperated by poorly fitted systems " - NFU Countryside magazine, March 2008. I ...

Amount and number from loiswakeman 612 days old

"Furthermore, the survey revealed that attendees were very satisfied with the amount of sessions offered in the fields of systems and technology" - report ...

Compliment and complement from loiswakeman 612 days old

Another in a series of words that often get mistaken. "The carrot to compliment this stick is that " - Big Issue article on ID cards, March 17-23, ...

Extol and exhort from loiswakeman 616 days old

First in a series of words that often get mistaken. Heard on The Food Programme (Radio 4) yesterday: "We are being extolled to sprinkle salt on our ...