Correct and Consistent Spelling

• Use a dictionary

  • Merriam-Webster

  • Oxford Dictionaries

  • Reverso

• Look for correctly spelled words that may in fact be typos

  • Untied States instead of United States

  • from instead of form

• Choose the right homophone

  • its vs. it's

  • effect vs. affect

• Use the exact spelling and capitalization for proper nouns

  • Marian Anderson, not Marion Andersen

  • HotData, not Hot Data or Hotdata

For more information, see Oxford Dictionaries' Commonly Confused Words and Spelling pages.