Grammar

Two little verbs, one shared Latin ancestor, and a surprising number of muddled sentences. If you have ever paused mid

You typed “smoothe” and your spell checker didn’t flinch. Or maybe it did, and you second guessed yourself anyway. Fair

You typed a sentence, paused, and stared at one word. Is it “summarize” or “summarise“? Spell checkers seem to flip

Say your boss hands you a “genuine” compliment. Then a coworker gives you a “sincere” one. Same warm feeling, different

You typed “costed vs cost” into Google, which usually means a sentence just made you squint. Maybe a boss wrote

Bingeing or binging? Both are right. Major dictionaries accept both spellings for the present participle of the verb binge, and

If you’re choosing between treck or trek, use trek when you mean a long, difficult, or tiring journey. It can

Leaped and leapt are both correct past-tense forms of leap. The main difference is regional preference: leaped is common in

Carmel and caramel are both correctly spelled words, but they do not mean the same thing. Caramel is the word

Learned and learnt are both correct past forms of the verb learn. The main difference is regional: learned is the