Clifford & Co(Continuing the A-Z series)
Economic and economical – the two words are closely related and both mean something to do with money. They come from the same Greek word meaning “relating to household management” but they don’t mean quite the same thing.
(Fourth in the series)
Many people aren’t sure of the difference in meaning between discrete and discreet or don’t realise that they are two different words.
Continuing the series of confusing words… many people aren’t sure of the difference in meaning between continual and continuous or don’t realise that there is a difference.
Many words in the English language get misused or confused. For B, I’ll explain the difference between born and borne, if you’ll bear with me.
So many words in the English language get misused or confused, I thought of compiling a series made up of a random choice of word that I’ve seen misused recently, for each letter of the alphabet.