It’s Monday! Time for Commonly Misused Words #7
Bemused v Amused.
Bemused means confused but amused means that you find something funny. It’s not so easy to illustrate this by means of examples, as both words could fit certain sentences but with different meanings.
e.g. ‘She was bemused by his behaviour’ means something totally different to ‘She was amused by his behaviour’. Got it?! Tune in tomorrow for #8

Happy Easter everyone!
How did it get to be April already?

Anyway, I’ve been very busy (very, very, very!) with lots of lovely manuscripts, so apologies for neglecting you, but here’s a little titbit for now. More soon. Have a great spring break!

Susan

Commonly Misused Words #5 LOOSE v LOSE.
‘I didn’t notice that my tooth was loose’, but ‘Did you lose your wallet at the store?’

Commonly misused words #6 – REIN v REIGN

‘Silence reigned.’ BUT ‘He had free rein over the theme for his dissertation.’ AND ‘She had to rein in his behaviour.’

Happy New Year everyone! Hope your writing in 2017 took you where you wanted it to!

You will see a lot more content from me this year, now that my wedding is out of the way, and hopefully we will have a healthy year – no chickenpox, chest infections, campylobacter and food poisoning from eating pre-packaged lettuce!

So, on with the show – the commonly misused words articles proved popular in the past two years, so I thought I’d continue with them, but rather than do one big article, I thought I’d drop you little titbits at a time. So here are the first two. Wishing you every success with your life and writing in 2018!

Susan Buchanan Cunningham

Part #1

Peak, peek, pique. To reach the peak of a mountain; to take a peek at your birthday present; to react with a fit of pique; his curiosity was piqued. Do these ever catch YOU out?!

Part #2
Amused – The clown’s antics amused me and I laughed my head off, BUT Bemused – I was totally bemused by what was happening. Amused = finding something funny; Bemused = confused/puzzled. You’d be surprised at how many people mix these up especially when they are in the writing groove!

I’ll be back in a few days with a couple more and towards the end of January we’ll have a verb strengthening and adverb cull post!

Happy Writing!