Commonly Misspelled Words

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This list is borrowed, with some words added from our own experience, from Student's Book of College English by David Skwire and Harvey S. Wiener. 6th ed. MacMillan: New York. 1992. Nearly every dictionary and textbook on writing and composition has a similar list.

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