Word choice

A and an | when to use them

A useful spelling rule

Advice and advise

Adviser or advisor?

Affect and effect

All ready and already

Although and though

Altogether versus all together

Anymore versus any more

Appendix, addendum, annexure and attachment

Appraise versus apprise

Around versus round

Assure, ensure and insure

Biannual, biennial and bimonthly

But and however

Can you use criteria and data with a singular verb?

Careen versus career

Chair, chairman or chairperson

Choose words with care in business writing

Commonly confused words test

Compared with and compared to

Complement versus compliment

Compound nouns create new words

Continually and continuously

Coordinate or co-ordinate?

Decision making or decision-making?

Dependant and dependent

Deprecate versus depreciate

Desert and dessert

Different from, different than and different to

Discreet and discrete

Disinterested versus uninterested

Disorganised and unorganised

e-words

Elicit versus illicit

Eminent and imminent

Empathetic and empathic

Enough: where does it go in a sentence?

Enquire vs inquire

Farther and further

Fewer and less

Flammable and inflammable

Flaunt versus flout

Focused or focussed?

Forums or fora

Got, but and that – words we love to hate

Homed and honed

Imply and infer

Inauthentic and unauthentic

Incidence and incident

Insidious and invidious

Judgement versus judgment

Latin expressions and italics

Learned or learnt?

Loose and lose

Nauseous vs nauseated

Nominalisation: the power of verbs

Only: position in a sentence

Palindrome: a definition and examples

Persons and people

Plural of status

Practical and practicable

Practice and practise

Premise or premises

Principal and principle

Proportional and proportionate

Shall

Sitting or seating arrangements

Staff or staffs

Than and then

That: When can you delete ‘that’?

There, they’re, there

Titled or entitled?

Toward or towards?

Turning verbs into nouns (nominalisation)

Unchartered and uncharted

Use the ‘right’ word

Used to do and be used to

Verb agreement with troublesome nouns

What versus which

While or whilst?

Why we contract ‘will not’ to ‘won’t’

Words that can cause problems in business writing

WriteAussie – further, lie, towards, dependent

WriteAussie – some Australian and American spelling differences