Quiet, Quite
Quiet, Quite
The opposite of quiet is disquiet.
Quiet means silence, no sound, not noisy, not loud. An adjective, its superlatives are quiet, quieter, and quietest.
Children,...
Cite, Site, Sight
Cite, Site, Sight
Cite, site and sight are homophones: similarly sounding words but with a different meaning and spelling.
Madhumita cites to the doctor that her...
Aisle, Isle
Aisle, Isle
One can see landmass, islands, isles and islets if he or she gets the window seat on the airplane but if you get...
Censer, Censor, Censure, Censorious, Censorship
Censer, Censor, Censure, Censorious, Censorship
Atheists may censure the use of censers in their households but they cannot influence censorship laws and cannot act as...
Precede, Proceed
Precede, Proceed
“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the...
Stationary, Stationery
Stationary, Stationery
The spellchecker in the computers will not help us when we use stationery in the place of stationary. And a letter makes the...
Whose, Who’s
Whose, Who’s
Whose and who’s are similar in their usage like his and he’s respectively.
Who owns Internet? Whose property is Internet infrastructure? No one owns...
Rise, Raise, Raize
Rise, Raise, Raze
The fortunes of a person, or a country, could rise, and could be razed down by one or the other factor, but...
Lose, Loss, Loose
Lose, Loss, Loose
Is wearing loose clothes at bedtime better for the body?
What are you afraid to lose in life?
What is your unforgettable loss?
Kathy &...
Learned, Learnt
Learned, Learnt
If learned and learnt are confusing, so is the case with leaned, leant; leaped, leapt…
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty...