Word Traps A Dictionary of the 5,000 Most Confusing Sound-Alike and Look-Alike Words

In 1989 the U.S. Naval Academy had to recall close to one thousand diplomas reading United States Navel Academy. Word Traps can save you from such disasters. Every day, the most respected writers, journalists, newspapers, magazines, and advertisers make dozens of errors involving sound-alike and look-alike words. And theyre not alone. The errors that so many of us make in our writing and speaking are more often the result of poor word choice than of poor spelling skills. Although computer spell-checkers correct nonwords, typos, and spelling lapses, they cant be counted on to catch these mistakes. At last, help is on the way. Word Traps is filled with thousands of sound-alike and look-alike words that plague the English language, words like: council and counsel incipient and insipient choral, chorale, coral, and corral right, rite, wright, and write sensual and sensuous prostate and prostrate alumna, alumnae, alumni, and alumnus awhile and a while Easy to use, informative, interesting, and often amusing, Word Traps will improve your writing and reading skills, and will earn a well-worn place right next to the dictionary.Linfield, Jordan L. is the author of 'Word Traps A Dictionary of the 5,000 Most Confusing Sound-Alike and Look-Alike Words', published 2000 under ISBN 9780595002795 and ISBN 059500279X.