Are you sure you know what you mean?

I must admit that I am not the world’s best speller by a long margin. And English is worse than most other languages, because many words have friends, who sound identical but mean something completely different. For example, bear and bare. And which is that gland, that older men sometimes have problems with – the prostate or the prostrate? If you’re wracking your brains, maybe you need to browse Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Useage, or perhaps buy a copy.

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