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.
Category: Writing
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.
Word Confusion: Billed versus Build
Billed and build may refer to body parts, but the parts are nowhere near each other in meaning in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Pique vs Piqué vs Piquet
Out of pique, I sat down in my piqué robe and researched the rules for piquet in this Word Confusion.
Word Confusion: Pincher vs Pincer vs Pinscher
Eek, it’s a platoon of pinschers in a pincer movement pinching in on their victim in this self-editing Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Word Confusion: Whicker versus Wicker
Have a laugh and plop into a wicker chair with KD Did It, as she imagines a whickering wicker basket from the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast, in this Word Confusion for self-editing writers.