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Not To Be Confused With – an expanded version

May 1, 2019 by jhagey

This week’s Not To Be Confused With… takes more bandwidth than usual. So, it’s a blog instead of a graphic.

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No one chooses to lose. Or do they?

May 5, 2014 by Judy

If you need another example of the confusion that reigns in the English language, I tackle another set of confusables today: choose - chose and loose - lose. Even though they look similar - normally a hint for rhyming words, there's not a rhyming pair in the bunch.

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