I ALWAYS get complement and compliment mixed up with their proper usage. I remember talking about a complement that I received for part of my college essay. I asked my teacher to read over it and help me with my essay and he noticed that I used the spelling "compliment" instead of "complement". He just laughed and told me the difference of both.
Another word that almost my whole senior year english class and I mess up on is "separate". We all would spell it as "seperate" in stead of "separate". It was actually funny because every so often we would have verbal quizzes in class and my teacher would have us spell out the word as one of the questions. You would be surprised at the number of people that would spell it wrong even towards the end of the year!
Before reading MG Handbook, I did not know that there is a difference between "everyone" and "every one". Looking over what is said about the two in the book, I now understand completely that there is a difference.
(I also noticed that Professor Warnock used "cite" properly and it made me chuckle a little because that word was in the MG Handbook and after seeing it in the weblog assignment I looked it up just to make sure he wasn't trying to trick us).
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