These two words, although pronounced the same, have unrelated meanings. Steel is a kind of metal, an alloy (a mixture of metals) consisting mainly of iron, and smaller amounts of other metals, such as carbon, which gives steel its useful combination of strength, flexibility, and resistance to corrosion. Steel is most commonly a noun, but steel can […]

The correct word is envision, a verb meaning ‘to visualise, imagine, or picture in one’s mind’:             Let us envision a world without hatred or prejudice. Invision is simply incorrect nowadays, although many English speakers do not remember, and may use invision sometimes. This is because, in the past, both spellings were okay, but now invision is […]

These are entirely different words and are pronounced differently.BelowBelow is a preposition with the same meaning as beneath – almost the same meaning as under. It means “located lower than”:             New Orleans floods often because it is below sea-level. Like all prepositions it has many common metaphorical uses:             People with below-average income may have difficulty buying […]

These two words, both adjectives, are closely related, but different in meaning. Systemic means “a property of a system (as a whole)”:             Systemic racism is difficult to avoid and even hard to detect in any society consisting of marganlized racial groups.             Anxiety seems to be a systemic problem in the human body. The first example, systemic racism, […]

Then and than are both function words (like prepositions and conjunctions). Many English function words begin with th- (e.g. this, they, that), which is because they were originally borrowed into English from the Old Norse language. You might run into a variety of ideas about the part-of-speech of these words, because they are complex, but don’t […]