Tuesday 23 September 2014

Five Commonly Misused or Misspelled Words Beginning With The Letter K. #GrowYourVocab

5 Words Beginning With the Letter "K" That Are Commonly Misused, Confused or Misspelled.


This post was brought to you by the letter "K". 


Knave: "An unprincipled, crafty fellow, Dishonest man, rogue".

Kudos: "Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement." Interesting Note: Kudos is the singular form of the word although many mistakenly use it as a plural form. 

Kitsch: "Excessively garish or sentimental art, usually considered in bad taste".

Karat: "US and Canadian measure of the proportion of gold in a alloy, expressed as the number of parts of gold in 24 parts of the alloy. Also spelled Carat in Britain and certain other countries."
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Carat: "A measurement of the weight of precious stones esp. diamonds. International Carat is 0.20 grams."
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Caret: "A proofreading symbol (^) used to indicate where something is to be inserted in a line of printed or written matter."
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Carrot: A plant, that "the usually tapering elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, is eaten raw or cooked".

Kernel vs Colonel: A kernel is "a grain or seed, as a cereal grass enclosed in a husk" whereas a Colonel is a military rank that in the US and Canadian Forces is the highest rank of senior officer", but "junior to a Brigadier-General".  


Yep, just me Cathy thinking out loud about the letter "K".

3 comments :

  1. I got such a great laugh at this thinking of you as a character from sesame street.... like the guy with the trench coat selling letters..... Wanna buy a letter "K" hahaha. In all seriousness though, it's a great post as we take our vocabulary for granted and we still have so much to learn.

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  2. The Kids were talking yesterday about "closed" and "clothes". Not quite right but close for four year olds.

    Besos, Sarah
    Blogger at Journeys of The Zoo

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  3. Love the word kitsch! I am going to start using that quite frequently now, LOL!

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