There are dozens of words within the English language that are misused regularly. This is not a surprising fact. With some many words within our language, everyone will misuse a word from time to time. All a person can do is learn from the mistake, and try not to repeat it.
In most instances of misused words, the reason is that the words is very similar to another word. Some examples of this include:
• Accept & Except – Accept means to receive, as in a person can accept an award. Except means excluding something, such as a person will do everything, except that.
• Sight & Site – Sight is a person’s ability to see. Get out of my sight. Site is a location, such as a website. Stay out of that construction site.
• Than & Then – Than is used to make comparisons...