{"id":5529,"date":"2013-08-07T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/misused-words-post\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:19:31","slug":"misused-words-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/misused-words-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigstock’s Grammar Guide: 12 Words You Might Be Misusing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture it. You’re typing away. Perhaps you’re working on a presentation for the office. Perhaps you’re writing out invitations to a pretty little picnic. Or, maybe you’re just writing to a pal reminding them about National Donut Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Regardless of the reason, you never want to commit one of those easily-missed spelling crimes. It happens to the best of us. Some words are just so darn similar. <\/p>\n

So, to help maintain your professional goals, your social calendar, and, of course, your sparkling reputation, here’s a quick visual guide for those very similar, and oft-confusing words. Happy spelling!<\/p>\n

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Check out the images used in this post in our Misused Words lightbox. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Picture it. You’re typing away. Perhaps you’re working on a presentation for the office. Perhaps you’re writing out invitations to a pretty little picnic. Or, maybe you’re just writing to a pal reminding them about National Donut Day. Regardless of the reason, you never want to commit one of those easily-missed spelling crimes. It happens…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[878,635,877,879,880,881,882,883,884,885,886,887,888,889,890],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-friday","tag-loose","tag-misused-words","tag-lose","tag-elicit","tag-illicit","tag-effect","tag-affect","tag-breath","tag-breathe","tag-stationary","tag-stationery","tag-peak","tag-peek","tag-grammar","tag-bigstock-grammar","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcS8aA-1rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}