Quizzes

• Underlying and underlining — two different words, completely different meanings

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• Hawk or hock?

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• Acronyms and initialisms ending in “s” and possession

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• Do you write well or good?

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• “myriad” or “a myriad of”?

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• A piece or apiece?

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• Is that heart-rending or heart-rendering?

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• “One in three has” or “one in three have?”

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• Is that on everyone’s mind or on everyone’s minds?

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• Crisis, crises, crisies

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• What does “welp” mean — and why do we say it?

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• What’s the difference between a product and a solution?

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• Supersede or supercede?

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• There are two ways—and two ways ONLY—that you can correctly refer to yourself as “myself”

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• To the manor born or to the manner born?

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• Can you give more than 100 percent?

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• Santa Claus’s sleigh or Santa Claus’ sleigh?

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• Confusing jargon: Throw it over the wall

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• Ingenuous or ingenious — what’s the difference?

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• Ad hoc, ad hock, add hoc, add hock?

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• Bane (or bain) of my existence?

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• The difference between racking your brain and wracking your brain

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• Coopted or co-opted?

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• Halloween (or Hallowe’en) history, trivia and a quiz

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• The difference between “aw” and “awe”

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• Is that a FAQ list or an FAQ list?

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• 1990’s or 1990s?

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• Accomodate or accommodate?

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• Personal affects or personal effects?

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• Do respect vs. due respect

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• Nail it vs. hit it on the head vs. nail it on the head

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• Criteria is or criteria are?

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• To whit or to wit?

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• Is that your conscious or your conscience that’s guilty? Are you self-conscious or self-conscience?

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• Is it inethical or unethical?

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• Plural of request for proposal

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• 8 a.m. or 8:00 a.m.?

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• Faster or fastest?

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• Articles, acronyms and initialisms — use “a” or “an”?

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• Chuck it up, chalk it up or chock it up?

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• Was that a worldwind or a whirlwind?

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• If a deadline’s moved forward is it earlier or later?

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• Do we really need words like “decisioning”?

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• ‘Tis the season or t’is the season?

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• Things you can do when you get to a bridge: Cross, burn or jump

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• Prefer to, prefer than or prefer over?

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• lowdown, low down or low-down

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• The plural of “OS”

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• Laptop or labtop? I’m not even kidding.

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• Me, myself, I — which is correct?

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• “Where” vs. “in which” (Part II)

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• Nip it in the butt or in the bud?

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• Font of wisdom or fount of wisdom?

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• Defiantly or definitely? Definately?

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• Most stupid or stupidest? Rules, and exceptions to them, for comparatives and superlatives

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• Differentiate vs. Distinguish – Which is correct?

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• Test your metal or mettle?

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• Express permission or expressed permission?

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• If you’ve got more than one of them, are they computer mice or mouses?

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• Neither has or neither have?

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• Tie me over vs. tide me over; also: the importance of fact-checking

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• A homage or an homage?

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• Expedite or expediate?

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• “Awhile” or “a while?”

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• “As good or better than” is as bad as, if not worse than…

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• What’s the difference between software, programs and applications?

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• Is that a C change or a sea change?

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• ‘Twas the night before Christmas — or should that be “t’was”?

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• Nice segway — or nice segue?

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• ingenuous vs. disingenuous

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• Pricing — is it competitive, aggressive or predatory?

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• The difference between “someday” and “some day”

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• Are you unphased or unfazed?

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• Low and behold? Lo and behold?

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• Wherever or where ever?

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• Can you use “between” when you’re talking about more than two things?

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• Forecast or forecasted?

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• Good-bye, good-by, goodbye, goodby?

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• Bare in mind or bear in mind?

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• Born out or borne out?

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• Fair well or fare well?

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• Does a question mark go inside or outside of quotation marks?

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• Easier or more easily – Which is correct?

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• Is that six month’s, six months’ or six months worth?

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• “Here, here” or “hear, hear?”

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• Based off or based on – Which is correct?

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• Is that your queue to leave or your cue to leave?

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• What’s the past tense of spin — spinned, span or spun?

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• When should you use commas with “such as” and “including”?

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• As you requested, per and as per

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• Comprises or is comprised of?

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• Easier vs. more easily

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• Graciously accept or graciously decline? You may do either — but can you say you’re doing so?

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• Test your Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure knowledge

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• How well do you know PowerCLI cmdlets?

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• CISM practice questions to prep for the exam

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• Test your knowledge of SD-WAN deployments and testing

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• NAS, SAN, or DAS? Quiz yourself on these 3 types of storage

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• Test your VMware NSX-T, NSX-V knowledge

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• Are you ready for a hybrid UC migration?

  Hybrid UC is an option for organizations that aren't ready or able to move all of their UC to the cloud. Take this quiz to test your knowledge of a hybrid UC migration.

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