I have many favorites, but probably I find most amusement (or despair) in to, too, two, and tew. I can understand confusing too and two, I guess, though hardly anybody ever does; but to and too are almost never pronounced the same way in American speech (only when to is being emphasized, as in "I was going to the store, not coming from the store.") So how can anyone mix them up?
As for tew, only leatherworkers and anthropologists (and I, of course) know that such a word exists.
It took me no fewer than five edits to get this post nearly right.
Oh, yeah -- then and than. Aargh.
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