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"100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles presents words that people can't keep straight, no matter how hard they try. It features notorious soundalikes, such as aural/oral, bawl out/ball out, errant/arrant, faze/phase, gibe/jibe, and waive/wave, as well as close calls and near misses like baleful/baneful, effectual/efficacious, mitigate/militate, and suppress/repress. As in the other 100 Words books, each entry has a definition and pronunciation,...
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Contains the one hundred most mispronounced words in the English language, selected by the editors of the "American Heritage Dictionary," and presents each word in standard dictionary format, with added explanation regarding the correct pronunciation along with information about the history of misuse.
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