The few words Archive

How to Write Correctly – Sound-alike Words

Practice/practise These two are constantly muddled up. That might seem an exaggerated claim, but even as we revised this book we came across this in The Times Higher Education Supplement: The institute has got to justify itself and we are now agreed we are not looking to issue a license to ... Continue reading

Some Avoidable Spelling Errors in Writing

It's/its The most important thing to remember is that there is no such form as it's'. Its is one of a few words that are already possessives, and do not, therefore, need an apostrophe adding to them. These words are my/mine its your/yours ... Continue reading