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Spell-Checker Follies: Guidance on Avoiding Word-Choice Blunders

Spell-Checker Follies: Guidance on Avoiding Word-Choice Blunders

Keefer Ph. D., Joseph D.

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ISBN10: 1543135943
ISBN13: 9781543135947
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 11 2017
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
There are hundreds of instances in which two or more words are pronounced alike but are spelled differently-for example, role and roll. In addition, there are hundreds of instances in which two words are pronounced differently but do exhibit some similarity in appearance-for example, compel and impel. Even well-educated people occasionally commit what can be called a word-choice blunder-that is, mixing up sound-alike words or similar-looking words. Those blunders can undermine your professional credibility and can embarrass you in social settings. Knowing the right word by heart is important. When you compose text on a computer, you cannot depend on a spell-check program to catch mistakes related to sound-alike or similar-looking words. When you forgo a spell-checker or when you hand-write a note, you are on your own. And, when you speak, you are on your own, too, because you need to know the distinctions between similar-sounding words. The book Spell-Checker Follies provides guidance on the correct usage of 435 pairs of words-182 sound-alike pairs and 253 similar-looking pairs. Spell-Checker Follies is designed to be read cover-to-cover and studied, much like a textbook. The book is divided into 16 units, each four pages long, with the most-common word pairs being addressed in the early units. An index lists the word pairs alphabetically.

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