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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
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