RECKLESS = rash; careless.
Don’t be a reckless driver! 🌲💥 🚗
FECKLESS = incompetent; ineffective.
The boss fired the feckless worker.

Generally, SHALL = WILL.

But when you ask questions, use SHALL only with “I” and “we”:
Shall YOU marry me? 💍 → ❌
Shall WE dance? 💃 → ✔️

EXCEPTIONABLE = offensive:
I was criticized for my EXCEPTIONABLE comments. 👩💬 😡

EXCEPTIONAL = outstanding:
My essay 📝 is EXCEPTIONAL. 👍

“Scared of” suggests a phobia: I’m *scared of* ghosts 👻 and snakes. 🐍

“Scared about” = worried about: I’m *scared about* tomorrow’s exam. 😓

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ENVELOP (v.) = surround, enclose: Fog *enveloped* the town.

ENVELOPE (n.) = flat container for a letter: He hates licking 👅 *envelopes*. ✉️

Let me TO show you the world 🌎. → ❌.

Let me show you the world 🌍. → ✔️.

👮After “let me,” use the bare infinitive of the verb (without “to”).

Let me TO teach you how to drive. → WRONG.

Let me teach you how to drive. → RIGHT.

A PART = one part.
Hard work is a part of success.

APART = away from each other; separately.
It’s hard to be apart from me. 😊

Technically,

🎲 = Die. (Singular)

🎲🎲 = Dice. (Plural)

(However, because so many people use “dice” as a singular word, it’s also accepted.)

You wear *pants*, not “a pant.” 👖

You cut with *scissors*, not “a scissor.” ✂️

If you can’t see well, you need *glasses*, not “a glass.” 👓

“Semiannual” = occurring twice a year.

“Biennial” = occurring every two years.

“Biannual” can mean both, so avoid using it if you can.

Annual - 1 year
Biennial - 2 years
Triennial - 3 years
Quadrennial - 4 years
Quinquennial - 5 years
Sexennial - 6 years
Septennial - 7 years
Octennial - 8 years
Novennial - 9 years
Decennial - 10 years

Kid = (n.) human child 👦🏻

Kid = (n.) baby goat 🐐

Kid = (v.) deceive (someone) in a playful or teasing way

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Adaptor = adapter → ✔️

Advisor = adviser → ✔️

Impostor = imposter → ✔️

(It’s not a 🇺🇸 vs. 🇬🇧 thing; it’s a matter of preference.)

BEAR hand = 🐻 hand

BEER hand = 🍺 hand

BARE hand = ✋🏻

SINGULAR → PLURAL:

Knife 🔪 → knives. 🔪🔪

Wife 👰 → wives. 👰👰

Life → lives.

However,

Fife (a flute) → *fifes*, not “fives.”

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- pronunciation of "-S" endings

- We appreciate YOU contacting the office. ✔️
vs.
- We appreciate YOUR contacting the office. ✔️

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🆚 device vs. devise 🆚

- device (noun) /dɪˈvaɪs/
- devise (verb, noun) /dɪˈvaɪz/

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🆚 device vs. devise 🆚

- device (noun) /dɪˈvaɪs/
- devise (verb, noun) /dɪˈvaɪz/

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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes

- undermine (verb) /ˌʌndə(r)ˈmaɪn/

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