Word Usage

British vs. American Spelling

Brand Name Words

A While/Awhile

Affect/Effect

Aught/Ought

Birth/Berth

Breech/Breach

Bridal/Bridle

Casualty/Causality

Cheep/Cheap
Chord/Cord

Comic/Comical

Complement/Compliment
Current/Currant

Decadent/Decedent

Discreet/Discrete

Duel/Dual

Elicit/Illicit

Flare/Flair

Hanger/Hangar

Hopefully

Infer

Irony

Latter/Ladder/Later

Lie/Lay

Lightening/Lightning

Literally

Loath/Loathe
Mariticide/Matricide

Maybe/May Be

Mistrust/Distrust

Past/Passed

Patience/Patients

Peak/Peek/Pique

Perpetrate/Perpetuate

Personal/Personnel

Perverse/Perverted

Phase/Faze

Plumb/Plum

Preposition/Proposition

Principle/Principal

Reek/Wreak

Roll/Role
Root/Route/Rout

Secret/Secrete

Sheer/Shear

Slander/Libel

Supposedly/Supposeably

Taught/Taut

Then/Than

Who/Whom