Tham khảo tài liệu 'knowledge vocabulary8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | file C Temp livres commonerrors errors VIOLA VOILA A viola is a flower or a musical instrument. The expression which means behold is voila. It comes from a French expression literally meaning look there In French it is spelled with a grave accent over the A but when it was adopted into English it lost its accent. Such barbarous misspellings as vwala are even worse caused by the reluctance of English speakers to believe that OI can represent the sound wah as it usually does in French. VOLUMPTUOUS VOLUPTUOUS Given the current mania for slim taut bodies it is understandable--if amusing--that some folks should confuse voluptuousness with lumpiness. In fact voluptuous is derived from Latin voluptas which refers to sensual pleasure and not to shape at all. A voluptuous body is a luxurious body. WARY WEARY LEERY People sometimes write weary tired when they mean wary cautious which is a close synonym with leery which in the psychedelic era was often misspelled leary but since Timothy Leary faded from public consciousness the correct spelling has prevailed. WARRANTEE WARRANTY Confused by the spelling of guarantee people often misspell the related word warrantee rather than the correct warranty. Warrantee is a rare legal term that means the person to whom a warrant is made. Although guarantee can be a verb we guarantee your satisfaction warranty is not. The rarely used verb form is to warrant. WASH In my mother s Oklahoma dialect wash was pronounced warsh and I was embarrassed to discover in school that the inclusion of the superfluous R sound was considered ignorant. This has made me all the more sensitive now that I live in Washington to the mispronunciation Warshington. Some people tell you that after you warsh you should wrench rinse . WAY FAR MUCH MORE Young people frequently use phrases like way better to mean far better or very much better. In formal writing it would be gauche to say that Impressionism is way more popular than Cubism instead of much more .
