Category: Confusing Words

Confusing Words, Fiction Writing

Confusing Words from Magnate to Marquise

by Lisa • March 26, 2025 • 0 Comments

Is black clothing a magnate or a magnet for animal hair? Does a horse have a main or a mane? Did Native American Indians eat maize or maze?

Confusing Words from Lore to Maid

by Lisa • December 2, 2020 • 1 Comment

Is traditional knowledge or belief known as lore or lower? Would you build a house with lumbar or lumber? Should you spray mace or Mace into the face of an attacker?

Confusing Words from Lo to Lox

by Lisa • April 2, 2020 • 2 Comments

Does a cow lo or low? Would you mine a lode of ore or a lowed of ore? Do you apply for a loan or a lone at the bank? Are ringlets of hair called locks or lox?

Confusing Words from Limb to Littoral

by Lisa • February 17, 2020 • 1 Comment

Would you go out on a limb or a limn for someone? Is lineament or liniment rubbed on the skin to soothe it? Would you call a wild cat a links or a lynx? Is whiskey a liqueur or a liquor?

Appalachian English and the Wheelbarrow

by Lisa • February 4, 2020 • 0 Comments

What does Appalachian English have to do with a wheelbarrow?

Confusing Words from Leas to Lightning

by Lisa • December 10, 2019 • 0 Comments

Would you prefer to have a picnic in the leas or in the lees? Do you look through a lends or a lens to take a picture? Would you play a liar or a lyre? Does a levee or a levy prevent flooding? Does lichen or liken grow on rocks and trees? Which one accompanies a thunderstorm: lightening or lightning?

Confusing Words: Mannequin vs. Manikin & the Strange Case of the Corpse Bride

by Lisa • April 1, 2019 • 0 Comments

Are mannequin and manikin interchangeable? Do you believe that La Pascaulita is a corpse bride?

Confusing Words from Lead to Lien

by Lisa • March 18, 2019 • 0 Comments

Would you lead or led a horse? Do you leaf or leave to go shopping? Does your hot water heater have a leak or a leek? Is a lean or a lien the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person?

Confusing Words from Later to Leech

by Lisa • February 21, 2019 • 0 Comments

Will you be leaving later or latter? Would a lath or a lathe be used to cut the wood? Does a lay or a lei go around your neck? Is a lea or a lee a meadow? Is a leach or a leech a bloodsucking worm?

Day of Darkness – a Review

by Lisa • February 7, 2019 • 0 Comments

Never did I imagine that anything would end the friendship of Nathan and Albin. Those two have been through so much and fought side by side against the cannibals. But this friendship ended on a bad note with one of them being shot by the other. Now, not only does Nathan have to stop the oil-drooling cannibals, he has do so with Albin working against him.