Life in a Single Word » multiple spellings http://www.singoloword.com Saying what you think, one word at a time Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:55:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Spelled different, sound the same… Misused Words http://www.singoloword.com/2009/04/spelled-different-sound-the-same-misused-words/ http://www.singoloword.com/2009/04/spelled-different-sound-the-same-misused-words/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:18:31 +0000 admin http://www.singoloword.com/?p=36 I know I’m not the only one, but it seems like it at times. I’m thinking of the perfect word to get my point across, only to find that what I thought it meant isn’t exactly right. Or, more often, spell checker changes a word spelling that sounds the same but now changes the meaning of what I just wrote.

Precede to come before
Proceed to go forward

Historic means an important event.
Historical means something that happened in the past.

A year ago, I found a iPhone (and Touch) application called WordPal that has a list of words that have multiple meanings depending on how you spell them, even though the different spellings sound the same. It was 99 cents so I grabbed it to have it handy when something just doesn’t look right. You can see WordPal in the iTunes App Store here…

If your online with your computer, you can always visit a variety of Web sites that have many words as well… and Free is a even better price! A couple of these sites are CopyBlogger (List of 27 Misused Words) and Richmond Education (Commonly Confused Words). Both handy to look over when online – while not ‘searchable’ they are fun and informative.

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