r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Swervin69 1d ago

Don’t feel bad beginners, fluent speakers still don’t know how to tell their, there, and they’re apart.

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u/ciopobbi 1d ago

Lose and loose

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u/evios31 17h ago

Effect/affect

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u/angry640 16h ago

Weather whether, Then than, bare bear, Insight incite, Hole whole, Flower flour, Apparently they are called homophones as in "words that sound the same but mean different things"