Word Confusion: Patience versus Patients
In this Word Confusion from KD Did It, patient is both noun and adjective while patience is a state of mind — and a noun, but never an adjective.
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Word Confusion: Tack versus Tact
KD Did It says, if you need to fasten something, go for the tack…but use tact if you want to be nice about it in this Word Confusion for the self-editing writer.
Word Confusion: One versus Won
Has she won or one the prize in this Word Confusion from KD Did It?
Word Confusion: Disburse versus Disperse
If someone disbursed money to you, I suppose you could disperse it with wild abandon, spending in a frenzy in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Personal versus Personnel
One shouldn’t get personal with personnel with whom one works. It can lead to some nasty incidents if there’s a falling out, per this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Reek versus Wreak
To reek or not to reek? Ah, heck, take a shower before he wreaks havoc on my nose in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Grammar: Idiom
At one fell swoop, the slings and arrows of outrageous idioms can enrich and make your writing a dish fit for the gods in this Grammar Explanation from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: May versus Might
Use of the traditional verbs, may and might, is something of a conflict with the casual use…let alone what the contradictory nature of the nouns in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Flour versus Flower
Remember which is which with the “u” in flour as a cupcake while the “w” in flower is the leaves and stem in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Dear versus Deer
Oh, deary, deer! She seems to be branching out, or rather, he is in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.