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      <description><![CDATA[The pairs writers mix up most are short, high-frequency function words a single character apart. We rank them and explain why frequency × small edit distance is the recipe for confusion.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Which Letters Begin the Most English Words and Confusables]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[S, P and C lead the English word count; S, C and B lead the confusable pairs. We trace the pattern back to Latin and Greek prefix clustering.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Largest English Homophone Groups]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Which pronunciations are shared by the most distinct spellings, computed from the corpus IPA — a direct measure of how far English spelling has drifted from sound.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why English Spelling Is So Hard]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[1,500 years of history, three invasions, a vowel shift and a printing press — the story behind English’s notorious inconsistency.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[100 Most Misspelled English Words]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Affect vs effect, principal vs principle and dozens more pairs where one wrong letter flips the sentence — and spell-check never catches it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Homophones That Confuse Everyone]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Words that sound identical but spell and mean differently, grouped by pronunciation with the rule that tells them apart.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why English keeps letters it no longer pronounces, where they come from, and how to remember the words that carry them.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spelling Rules That Actually Work]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[English–Spanish False Friends]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Words that look the same across English and Spanish but mean something different, the trap bilingual writers fall into most.]]></description>
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