Here is another pair that sounds so similar when we speak! These homophones have given many writers headaches as they agonise over word choice while composing poems, articles, essays, and stories. Do I accept an invitation...

The words affect and effect are two of the most commonly confused words in the English language. They’re pronounced pretty much the same, used in the same contexts, and both can be used as both a verb and a noun. So how can you remember the...

Ambiguous and ambivalent are adjectives that are used to indicate uncertainty. However, they are used in entirely different scenarios, even though they share the Latin prefix ambi-, which means “both,” so it is easy to see how they can be...