"The Elements of Style" |
VI. WORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED
accidentally | formerly | privilege |
advice | humorous | pursue |
affect | hypocrisy | repetition |
beginning | immediately | rhyme |
believe | incidentally | rhythm |
benefit | latter | ridiculous |
challenge | led | sacrilegious |
criticize | lose | seize |
deceive | marriage | separate |
definite | mischief | shepherd |
describe | murmur | siege |
despise | necessary | similar |
develop | occurred | simile |
disappoint | parallel | too |
duel | Philip | tragedy |
ecstasy | playwright | tries |
effect | preceding | undoubtedly |
existence | prejudice | until |
fiery | principal |
Write to-day, to-night, to-morrow (but not together) with hyphen.
Write any one, every one, some one, some time (except the sense of formerly) as two words.