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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Did I Loose You?

Online recently I discovered a new example of word confusion: expand and expend. The first means to increase, the latter means to decrease as in to spend or use up. An exhortation to "expend your contacts" was not an incentive to sign up for a business networking service. Other commonly confused words include:
affect and effect (both as nouns and verbs)
rap and wrap
lie and lay (as verbs)
accept and except
allusion and illusion and delusion
censure and censor
compose and comprise
imply and infer
founder and flounder
loose and lose

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