Licence or License – Definitions, Correct Usage with Examples

Licence or License – Definitions, Correct Usage with Examples

Licence and License are two words in English that are liable to cause confusion for users. The post: Licence or License – Definitions, Correct Usage with Examples handles this confusion by way of defining the two words and explaining their use/usage with illustrative examples. These words are liable to cause confusion in British English. In … Read more

Toward or Towards? Definitions, Differences and Examples

Toward or Towards? Definitions, Differences and Examples

This post, Toward or Towards? Definitions, Differences and Examples, came as a response to a question one of the regular readers of Akademia asked me. I decided to put up this post for the benefit of our teeming readers. I hope you too find this educative. Toward or Towards? Definitions, Differences and Examples Before talking … Read more

Stationary and Stationery: Meaning, Usage with Examples

Stationary and Stationery: Meaning, Usage with Examples

Welcome here! This post, aptly titled Stationary and Stationery: Meaning, Usage with Examples addresses the distinction between these two homophones beginning with their definitions. These words are homophones. Do you know what homophones are? (See the post, Homophones in English) Let us get to it… Stationary and Stationery: Meaning, Usage with Examples Many people do … Read more

Several vs Severally: Correct Usage with Examples

Several vs Severally: Correct Usage with Examples

I once overheard someone say to his interlocutor: ‘*who authorite you?’ I knew he meant to say ‘who authorised you?’ Don’t laugh at this individual as you also have some words you use wrongly. This is why it is good for us to look at Several vs Severally: Correct Usage with Examples. Now, this is … Read more

How to Use Farther and Further with Examples

How to Use Farther and Further with Examples

Welcome here dear reader! The English language is replete with several words which that look alike though sometimes not related. However, some of these words share a level of similarities. This post, How to Use Farther and Further with Examples, examines the correct usage of this pair. How to Use Farther and Further with Examples … Read more

Elder vs Older: Correct Usage with Examples

Elder vs Older: Correct Usage with Examples

Welcome here again! I’m glad you are getting informed by reading our various educative posts; otherwise, you won’t come visiting again. Anyway, it’s good to have you here. I present to you Elder vs Older: Correct Usage with Examples. You would not believe that many people use these two words interchangeably; however, you cannot use … Read more

Imminent vs Immanent: Correct Usage with Examples

Imminent vs Immanent: Correct Usage with Examples

Hello there! Glad to know you are here again. On our Common Error Series, there are lots of issues to be addressed and I will share one of them with you in this post. I call it: Imminent vs Immanent: Correct Usage with Examples. The two words are exactly the same in orthography, save for … Read more

Ingenious vs Ingenuous: Correct Usage with Examples

Ingenious vs Ingenuous: Correct Usage with Examples

Hello my dear reader! I’m sure that since you have been following my posts you have learned quite some things. Great! I present to you this interesting post: Ingenious vs Ingenuous: Correct Usage with Examples. We cannot say that these two words we want to examine are homophones per se as they have slightly different … Read more

Commonly Used Wrong Words (with Corrections)

Commonly Used Wrong Words (with Corrections)

Hello Dear Reader! Thank you for following our informative and educative posts on Akademia.  I wish to bring to your attention Commonly Used Wrong Words (with Corrections). Do you know that there are so many atrocious English we speak that makes one wonder if we never turned the words or expressions over in our minds … Read more

Barbing Salon or Barbershop: Which is Correct?

Barbing Salon or Barbershop: Which is Correct?

Welcome to this interesting post. I’m sure you are getting lots of helpful information on Akademia. This post, Barbing Salon or Barbershop: Which is Correct? expatiates on the correct form of how we describe the place the male folks get a haircut; I know some females visit there too. Almost everybody is guilty of using … Read more