Quizzes

• Open source — hyphenate or not?

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• Substantial vs. substantive

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• Fulfill or Forfill – Which is correct?

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• Demographics – plural or singular?

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• Is that data historic or historical?

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• Do you capitalize units of measurement named for people?

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• Seldom or seldomly?

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• Do you reap what you sow or what you sew?

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• Is a company singular or plural?

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• Typos, typoes or typo’s?

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• Old-fashion or old-fashioned?

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• Hyphenation — low cost or low-cost?

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• The irony of using quotation marks for emphasis

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• Has lain or has laid?

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• Off vs. off of

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• Calfs vs. calves; wifes vs. wives; roofs vs. rooves

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• “Withold” or “withhold”

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• Threshold or threshhold?

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• Bona fide vs. bonified: Surprise! “Bonified” is a word .

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• Is that “brand-new” or “bran-new”? And why do we say it, anyway?

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• Is the expression “one and the same” or “one in the same”?

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• Subject – verb agreement and the parenthetical phrase

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• Avoid vs. Prevent – Which is correct?

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• Comma before “Inc.” or not?

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• Is it “all be it” or “albeit”?

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• Is that network insecure or unsecure?

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• Underlying and underlining — two different words, completely different meanings

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• Hawk or hock?

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• Acronyms and initialisms ending in “s” and possession

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• Do you write well or good?

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• “myriad” or “a myriad of”?

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• A piece or apiece?

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• Is that heart-rending or heart-rendering?

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• “One in three has” or “one in three have?”

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• Crisis, crises, crisies

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• Is that on everyone’s mind or on everyone’s minds?

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• What does “welp” mean — and why do we say it?

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• What’s the difference between a product and a solution?

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• Supersede or supercede?

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• There are two ways—and two ways ONLY—that you can correctly refer to yourself as “myself”

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• To the manor born or to the manner born?

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• Confusing jargon: Throw it over the wall

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• Ingenuous or ingenious — what’s the difference?

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• Santa Claus’s sleigh or Santa Claus’ sleigh?

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• Can you give more than 100 percent?

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• Ad hoc, ad hock, add hoc, add hock?

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• The difference between racking your brain and wracking your brain

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• Coopted or co-opted?

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• Bane (or bain) of my existence?

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• The difference between “aw” and “awe”

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• Halloween (or Hallowe’en) history, trivia and a quiz

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• Is that a FAQ list or an FAQ list?

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• Accomodate or accommodate?

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• Personal affects or personal effects?

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• Nail it vs. hit it on the head vs. nail it on the head

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• Criteria is or criteria are?

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• Do respect vs. due respect

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• To whit or to wit?

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• Is that your conscious or your conscience that’s guilty? Are you self-conscious or self-conscience?

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• Plural of request for proposal

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• 8 a.m. or 8:00 a.m.?

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• Is it inethical or unethical?

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• Chuck it up, chalk it up or chock it up?

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• Faster or fastest?

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• Articles, acronyms and initialisms — use “a” or “an”?

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• Was that a worldwind or a whirlwind?

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• If a deadline’s moved forward is it earlier or later?

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• ‘Tis the season or t’is the season?

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• Do we really need words like “decisioning”?

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• Things you can do when you get to a bridge: Cross, burn or jump

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• Prefer to, prefer than or prefer over?

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• lowdown, low down or low-down

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• The plural of “OS”

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• Laptop or labtop? I’m not even kidding.

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• Me, myself, I — which is correct?

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• “Where” vs. “in which” (Part II)

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• Nip it in the butt or in the bud?

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• Defiantly or definitely? Definately?

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• Font of wisdom or fount of wisdom?

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• Most stupid or stupidest? Rules, and exceptions to them, for comparatives and superlatives

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• Differentiate vs. Distinguish – Which is correct?

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• Test your metal or mettle?

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• Express permission or expressed permission?

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• If you’ve got more than one of them, are they computer mice or mouses?

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• Neither has or neither have?

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• Tie me over vs. tide me over; also: the importance of fact-checking

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• “As good or better than” is as bad as, if not worse than…

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• A homage or an homage?

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• Expedite or expediate?

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• “Awhile” or “a while?”

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• What’s the difference between software, programs and applications?

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• Nice segway — or nice segue?

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• ‘Twas the night before Christmas — or should that be “t’was”?

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• Is that a C change or a sea change?

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• ingenuous vs. disingenuous

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• Pricing — is it competitive, aggressive or predatory?

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• The difference between “someday” and “some day”

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• Low and behold? Lo and behold?

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• Wherever or where ever?

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• Are you unphased or unfazed?

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