Monday, July 12, 2004
YOU SAY DEFUSE, I SAY DIFFUSE: And chances are one of us is using either word wrong according to the folks at the Oxford University Press, who report that confusion between defuse and diffuse has replaced the its/it's mistake as the No. 1 word crime, with 50% of people confusing the two words in their writing. Other common word crimes on the Oxford list include: rein/reign (26%), tow/toe (21%), pouring/poring (12%).
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