Mismatch in usage and meaning[]
| its vs. it's |
| your vs. you're |
| then vs. than |
| "as far as xxx goes" vs. "as for, xxx" |
| except vs. accept |
| effect vs. affect |
| libel vs. liable |
Incorrect spelling (or pronunciation)[]
| Incorrect | Correct |
| Antartic | Antarctic |
| asterick | asterisk |
| athelete | athlete |
| dialate | dilate |
| excape | escape |
| expresso | espresso |
| Febyuary | February |
| heighth | height |
| hi-archy | hierarchy |
| irregardless | regardless |
| jewlery | jewelry |
| Klu Klux Klan | Ku Klux Klan |
| libary | library |
| miniture | miniature |
| mischievious | mischievous |
| perogative | prerogative |
| prespire | perspire |
| pronounciation | pronunciation |
| realator | realtor |
| reoccur | recur |
| sherbert | sherbet |
| Tiajuana | Tijuana |
| triathalon | triathlon |
| vice-a-versa | vice versa |
| Wensday | Wednesday |
| conversate | converse |
Incorrect usage[]
| Incorrect | Correct |
| early adapter | early adopter |
| low and behold | lo and behold |
| splitting image | spitting image or spit and image |
| suppose to | supposed to |
| take a different tact | take a different tack |
| use to | used to |
| wet your appetite | whet your appetite |
| within parenthesis | within parentheses |
| wreck havoc | wreak havoc |
| any ways | any way |
| catch 20 / 20 | catch 22 |
| coming down the pipe | coming down the pike |
| could of | could've |
| do to | due to |
| flush it out | flesh it out |
| hindsight is 50 / 50 | hindsight is 20 / 20 |
| it's now in my ballpark | it's now in my court |
| it's six and one half dozen of the other | it's six of one or half dozen of the other |
| mute point | moot point |
| peak (or peek) my interest | pique my interest |
| prostrate | prostate |
| up and adam | up and at 'em |
| going out on a lim | going out on a limb |
| one in the same | one and the same |