http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=673903
This is a list of words that get misused a lot.
Examples:
Appraise means set a price on. Apprise means inform.
Blooded means pedigreed or initiated. Bloodied means wounded.
Collapse is not transitive. You may collapse, but you may not collapse
something.
Discreet means circumspect or prudent; discrete means separate or
distinct. Remember that Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes
are. (Oscar Wilde)
Effectively means with effect; if you mean in effect, say it.The matter
was effectively dealt with on Friday means it was done well on Friday. The
matter was, in effect, dealt with on Friday means it was more or less
attended to on Friday. Effectively leaderless would do as a description of
the demonstrators in East Germany in 1989 but not those in Tiananmen
Square. The devaluation of the Slovak currency in 1993, described by some
as an effective 8%, turned out to be a rather ineffective 8%.
Flaunt means display; flout means disdain. If you flout this distinction,
you will flaunt your ignorance.
(And that's as much as I'm going to copy & paste right now.)
Julia
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