Spelling

Ambience is a character and mood of a place. Ambiance is an alternative spelling of the same word. When reading articles onilne, you’ll find ambiance—spelled with an -ance—like in the title of this new story: Top restaurant performers in September won guest affection with ‘ambiance’ – Nation’s Restaurant News… continue reading

Along with definitely and loose, separate is one of the most commonly misspelled words in English. Separate can be either an adjective or a verb. It means set apart, individual, distinct, or not related as an adjective. As a verb, it means to detatch, set apart, distinguish, or divide. Separate is misspelled often as seperate, a word that has no meaning and… continue reading

Even minor variances between words and phrases can mean the difference between accurate writing and embarrassing spelling errors. Sometimes, these differences come down to the placement of something as simple as a space. A good example of this is ahold vs. a hold.  Although ahold is… continue reading

Behavior vs. behaviour is one of plenty words that are spelled differently in American English than in UK English. It’s part of a pattern that reaches across the majority of words with the same ending, like flavor/flavour color/colour, labor/labour, and so on. Which spelling is… continue reading

Leach vs. leech are easily mixed up words. The spell-check application of most word processing programs won’t catch a mix-up of these two words. Spell-check looks for words that aren’t in its dictionary or words that resemble words in its dictionary but are potentially spelled… continue reading

As a noun, gray  is usually in reference to the color. It can also be used as an adjective when we want to say that the color of something is simply a shade of gray. It can be used as a verb  as well, for when something grays (i.e., turns gray, such as hair).… continue reading

Many of our readers are curious about the spellings judgment and judgement. Judgement is typically flagged by word processors as an incorrect spelling, but online, you can find both spellings with nearly equal frequency. There are number of instances such as this with debated spelling of various words (which… continue reading

Being a bachelor is not a requirement to receive a bachelor’s degree, but one does need to show mastery in order to obtain a master’s degree. In any case, you should be able to correctly spell the degree you have; spelling them as masters degree and bachelors degree is… continue reading