title: 1,101 Words2watch: A Wordsmith's Guide to Misused and Confusing Words
author: David Athol Coe
description: What an excellent guide! Well done David. I'll definitely give it to all of our journalists. - Alan Kohler, editor in chief, Business Spectator and Eureka Report. One of the most powerful tools we have in communication is the use of the right word in the right context in the right application. The tragedy of management is we pay so little attention to getting this right. The right word backed by enthusiasm, commitment and the authentic passion of a leader shakes the heart and rattles the brain. - Mark Cutifani, CEO, Anglogold-Ashanti. Every writer/communicator should have a copy of David's bible. Keep this next to the laptop and you're on the way to producing clean and clear copy. - Chris Pash, writer of Cliche of the Week. For those moments when a hastily written note might accidentally turn a new friend from a Boer to a bore (or even a boar or, worse, a boor), David Coe has created a neat aide memoire. - Michael Gill, former publisher of the Australian Financial Review. Thanks for your wordsmith (I love the broad possibilities of that word) guide, which is a handy and useful checklist. I was particularly glad to see 'accept' and 'except' in there as they are my two black beasts. - Robyn FitzRoy, chair, WealthPortal.
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  }EDITORIAL:
  
  Let's keep it short and sweet even though it may be hard to do so!
  
  "Time" and "tune" may be reading wrongly as each other
  
  Any word with an m is suspect and can be a }th} such as the word "mat", "me",
  "mey", "mis", "mink" , "mough", "mere", "mem", "men" may be a mistake and
  actually be "that", "the", "they", "this", "think", "though", "there", "them",
  "then"
  
  D is inaccurately being read instead of TL. Any word with d like gendy,
  silendy, flady, gende, casde, setde, }batde} etc. should be gently, silently,
  flatly, gentle, castle, settle, battle, etc.
  
  And the ususal "di" is being read instead of }th} such as "anodier" for
  "another", "fadier" for "father", "diere" for "there", "die" for "the", "dis"
  for "this", "moudi" for "mouth", "padi" for "path", "dian" for "than",
  "aldiough" for "although", "diought" for "thought", "diat" for "that", etc
  
  .And I’m seeing "fi" for "h" so words like "}tfiat}" should be "that",
  "tfiere" should be "there", etc.
  
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