Hazarda vıvo de Ilhuıtemoc

polyglotproblems:

English: Especially vs specially, affect vs. effect, through vs. thorough, farther vs. further, allot vs. a lot, dessert vs. desert, vane vs. vain, stationery vs. stationary, wine vs. whine, weather vs. whether, council vs. counsel, lose vs. loose…

French: allocation vs. allocution, irruption vs. érruption, apurer vs. épurer, colorer vs. colorier, au dessus vs. en dessous, balade vs. ballade, cerfs vs. serfs, estomper vs. estamper, enfouir vs. enfuir, rabattre vs. rebattre, inclinaison vs. inclination, poison vs. poisson, conjecture vs. conjoncture…

Portuguese: Deferir vs. diferir, delatar vs. dilatar, descrição vs. discrição, emergir vs. imergir, emigrar vs. imigrar, eminente vs. iminente, enfestar vs. infestar, comprimento vs. cumprimento, pontoar vs. pontuar, roborizar vs. ruborizar, soar vs. suar, acender vs. ascender, acético vs. ascético vs. asséptico, decente vs. descente, concerto vs. conserto, paço vs. passo, ruço vs. russo, coser vs. cozer…

Especially vs specially is particularly difficult for me, a Spanish speaker, because we are normally taught that words that in Spanishstart with es- (especial, esposo, especia, etc), in English the e- disappears (special, spouse, spice, etc). So, for a Spanish speaker, the expected word would be “specially”, without e-.