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I honed in on this article immediately, hoping to get further into it to avoid choosing randomly among compose and comprise, but if I utilize a dictionary, will that insure success?

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This was a fun article because I knew at least one of the two and that they are not interchangeable. Forego and forgo I thought was a UK variation until now and when you mentioned fore as in before it made a lot click with the roots of words. As someone who was a victim of grammar policing growing up this article spoke wonders. I would be interested in more articles of misunderstood words.

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Well good news, friend, because I had about twice as many word pairs as what made it into the final article! I saved the other half for a future article so I will make sure to put that into the calendar for you. :)

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