What a difference one letter can make
interment means the act of burying a dead body
His remains were brought back for interment in the cemetery of his native town.
internment means confinement of foreign troops
During WWII there were internment camps in the USA for Japanese-Americans.
interment + another N = internment
Put that strange plural in parentheses
parenthesis is singular
parentheses is plural
Ice house, ice box, Frigidaire, fridge, …
The appliance that keeps your food cold is called a refrigerator or fridge.
Before artificial refrigeration was common, communities had ice houses where lake ice was stored. They would have the ice delivered and kept in an ice box. At the beginning of the 20th century, artificial food refrigeration was invented.
The first self-contained mechanical refrigerator was invented in 1915. It was sold by the Guardian Frigerator Company which later became Frigidaire. That is where we get the word fridge but it is not part of the word refrigerator.
Did your ally just run down that alley?
ally means one united to another by treaty
alley means a narrow street giving access to the rear of a lot
Please log in using your login
setup is a noun (Nice setup you have here.)
set up is a verb phrase (Please set up the equipment.)
login is a noun (Do you remember your login?)
log in is a verb phrase (Please log in now.)
Hard to wake up after your merry-making?
revelry means joyful merry-making
reveille is a bugle call used to wake military personnel
I don't got no grammar problems
don’t got no is literally do not got no and is a double negative meaning that you do have something. It should be don’t have any.
If you think you still need to say don’t got no, at least never write it down anywhere!
You would never say, "The reason is the reason."
Reason is because
because means for the reason that so don’t use it with reason
Reason is why
the reason is already the why so don’t use it with reason
For more information, visit because and why at Everything Language and Grammar.
Careful not to spell all words as heard
liberal means not limited to traditional views.
libral is related to libra, the Ancient Roman unit of weight.
Diving into grammar
Use dived for the past tense of dive when writing.
“I dived from the high board.”
Dove is a bird, not the past tense of dive!
(We say skydived. We never say skydove.)