hpr2751 :: Battling with English - part 3
Misunderstandings about English grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.
Hosted by Dave Morriss on Monday, 2019-02-18 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Duration: 00:13:42
Battling with English.
Looking at the English language and highlighting some common anomalies, mistakes, mispellings, grammar problems and similar.
Battling with English - part 3
Some word confusions
In this episode, the third of this series, I’m looking at some words that are sometimes used in the wrong places, often being confused one with another. These words are often particularly difficult to differentiate by people for whom English is not their first language.
Long notes
As usual I have provided detailed notes and examples for this episode, and these can be viewed here.
Links
- Been:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “been”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “been”
- Being:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “being”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “being”
- Been versus Being
- Examples of the use of Being:
- Weather:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “weather”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “weather”
- Wether:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “wether”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “wether”
- Whether:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “whether”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “whether”
- Wither:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “wither”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “wither”
- Whither:
- Oxford Dictionaries: Definition of “whither”
- Online Etymology Dictionary: “whither”
- Weather, wether, and the rest:
- Previous episodes in this series: