A set of words and rules that we make errors in our daily English
uses.
Example:
dairy / diary - A common typo that won’t be caught by your spelling checker is swapping dairy and diary. Butter and cream are dairy products; your journal is your diary.
damped / dampened - When the vibration of a wheel is reduced it is damped but when you drive through a puddle your tire is dampened. Dampened always has to do with wetting if only metaphorically: The announcement that Bob’s parents were staying home after all dampened the spirits of the party-goers. The parents are being a wet blanket.
Example:
dairy / diary - A common typo that won’t be caught by your spelling checker is swapping dairy and diary. Butter and cream are dairy products; your journal is your diary.
damped / dampened - When the vibration of a wheel is reduced it is damped but when you drive through a puddle your tire is dampened. Dampened always has to do with wetting if only metaphorically: The announcement that Bob’s parents were staying home after all dampened the spirits of the party-goers. The parents are being a wet blanket.
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