10 Confusing Word Pairs Everybody Gets Wrong

If you’ve been waiting with bated (or baited) breath for my next post on confusing word pairs, today is your day!

It was almost three years agothat I firstset out to make the world a better place by ending once and for all the misuse of “jibe” and “jive” and “hone” and “home,” among others.

Check out that post here, and you’ll see it’s not for the faint (as opposed to feint) of heart. You’ll find none of the basics like “there/their” or “to/too.” It’s strictly an advanced class, as is this on...