Author name: Lexi Sterling

Merriam-Webster offers up what might be the single most elegant memory trick for Discreet vs Discrete: notice that in “discrete,”

Here’s a genuinely useful visual to keep in mind for Continual vs Continuous: a leaky faucet drips continually—stopping and starting,

Chances are you were taught a clean rule in school: among vs between means between is for two things and

These two words look like they should rhyme, and they’re spelled almost identically—just one letter apart—but they’re pronounced differently and

Here’s a rule most people never had explicitly explained to them, even though native speakers usually get it right by

These two words differ by just one letter—Advice vs Advise—but that small spelling change also affects pronunciation. Once you know

These two words are spelled almost identically, pronounced exactly the same way, and share a common ancestor in Latin —