Don't know which of two words to use? These less-than-2-minute videos from Oxford Dictionaries Youtube channel will help you pick the right one.
Take a look
at these two sentences – one of them contains a mistake:
- I poured over book after book.
- We pored over the catalogues.
Are you
uncertain which one is right? There are a lot of words in English that look or
sound alike but have very different meanings, such as pore and pour or flaunt and
flout. It’s easy to get them confused and most electronic spell-checkers won’t
be much help in this type of situation: they can tell you if a word has been
spelled wrongly, but they can’t generally flag up the misuse of a correctly
spelled word.
CLICK HERE for a quick-reference list of pairs of words that regularly cause people problems.
The words follow the accepted British English spelling. Some of them do have
alternative American spellings, and you will find these at the main dictionary
entry on Oxford Dictionaries website.
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