The difference is important:
rapped & raped
stripped & striped
lopped & loped
tapped & taped
copped & coped (six SOL stories contain 'coped a feel')
I'm sure there are more - those were the first four I thought of. The top two seem particularly problematic on SOL.
AJ
I've got a few too:
antichamber – antechamber
apetite - apatite
barring - bering - barren - baring - bearing
boarder - border
bolt - bold - bald
bought - brought
break - brake
buses - busses
carat, caret, carot - karet, karat
cart - card
casualty - causality
cloths - clothes
closet - closest
council - counsel
create - crate
crips - crisp
deer - dear
defendable - defensible
dessert - desert
die - dye
diner - dinner
discrete - discreet
dose - doze
emerge - immerge
except - accept
faint - feint
future - feature
from-form
hanger - hangar
heal - heel
herd - heard
hopping - hoping
incite - insight
incredulous - incredible
interment - internment
it's - its
lateral - literal
loose - lose
marry - merry
midst - mist
organism - orgasm
out - our
owe - own
paid - payed
panned - paned
patient - patience
passed - past
peace - piece
peek - peak - pique
peel - peal
perfect - prefect
perform - preform
plain - plane
planned - planed
pole - poll
pray - prey
premiere - premier
principle - principal
quite - quiet
queue - que - cue
raper - rapper
relay - rely
started - startled (start - startle)
rein - reign - rain
revel - reveal
role - roll
scared - scarred (scaring - scarring)
scare - scarce
scrapped - scraped
sense - since
sever - severe
sigh - sign
site - sight
seams - seems
semen - seamen
spar - spare
sparring - sparing
starred - stared
stripper - striper
striped - stripped
stuck - struck
succeed - secede
supper - super
sweet - sweat
tale - tail
tired - tried
though - through
trial - trail
waste - waist
wear - where
And the most famous one: than - that
I found that many authors that otherwise produce very well edited stories often use 'that' where is should be 'than'. It's almosyt like they are afraid to wrongly use 'than' :D
And the most famous one: than - that
I would expand that to: then - than - that
'Then' is commonly used for an 'If - then' decision.
apetite - apatite
Ae these supposed to be two words that are incorrect spellings of appetite? in the rest of your list you have correct and incorrect pairings or groupings. Here they both seem wrong, although 'apatite' is apparently an actual word. It's just not one likely to come up in an amarteur erotic story.
@Keet
apetite - apatite
Ae these supposed to be two words that are incorrect spellings of appetite? in the rest of your list you have correct and incorrect pairings or groupings. Here they both seem wrong, although 'apatite' is apparently an actual word. It's just not one likely to come up in an amarteur erotic story.
Yup, even in a list it's possible to have typos and/or incompleteness. It should be "appetite - apetite - appatite - apatite"
appetite: desire to eat
apetite: misspelling of appetite
appatite: misspelling of appetite
apatite: a group of phosphate minerals
...and the ever popular there, they're, their.
(We're not Grammar Nazi's, we just paid attention in 6th grade English class.)
...and the ever popular there, they're, their.
Yep, maybe even more 'famous' than(!) 'then-that-than'.
Two I see in almost all stories:
Champagne - Champaign (a city in Illinois)
Council(or) - Counsel(or)
I will admit my pwn shortcoming….
I struggle with when/where/how to use the words AFFECT and EFFECT (including their iterations).
I also make the very frequent mis-type errors.
But hardly ever do I hit the breaks to take a brake from trying to use words correctly.
I have a pet peeve about "they're", "their" and "there". "They're looking for their car but it's parked right there." And if you're wondering, I feed my pet Purina Peeve Chow.
I see LOTS of these issues, however the one that bothers me the most is AN, AND.
AN is an article, like A, or THE.
AND means plus, or also. 'This and that are both needed.
I have often seen "lead" for "led." When "lead" is pronounced that way, it refers to the metal; the past tense of the verb "to lead" is "led."
Tonight, I will lead my love into the bedroom. I led them into the bedroom yesterday. I have lead weights in the bedroom.
Of course, a large part of the problem is the analogy to "read," which works the opposite way, in that the past tense of "to read" is "read," while "red" is an unrelated word.
The top two seem TO BE particularly problematic on SOL.
Seem can be used as a linking verb followed usually by an adjective or as a verb followed by a to-infinitive. The meanings are the same.
AJ
Lots of stories on SOL involve a high-school principle who has no principals.
Must be public school principles. :)