Are you using the right words? Check this out

From Creative Boom

Are you making subtle but perceptible mistakes in your writing? Suffering from stuff spell check won’t pick up? Are you looking naïve in your pitches and emails?

It’s a complex beast, the English language. Forever evolving, like literally, it can be difficult to keep up with what means what: such as that guy on Channel 4’s intriguing reality show First Dates, who reckoned it a huge compliment to tell a girl ‘your eyes are ridiculous,’ before upping the ante and telling her teeth were ridiculous too. He was ridiculous. Like, literally.

In part one of Creative Boom’s "Pragmatists’ Guide to Grammar and Punctuation," we’ll take a look at the 140 most commonly confused words in the English language.