Principle vs. principal are among the ranks of ’week vs. weak‘, ‘affect vs. effect‘, ‘allusion vs. illusion‘, and the countless other confusing words in English. But as is the case with these other examples, once you know the difference, these confusing word pairs are easy to tell apart. Let’s dive …
If you’ve often stumbled while using the two similar sounding, yet very different words, week and weak, here’s a short article explaining the difference between the two. Week vs. weak:…
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