**This A-Z list includes:**

- Words with two spellings and one meaning
- Words with two spellings and two meanings
- Commonly confused words
- Company, product and brand names
- Place names
- Words to avoid

## Words with two spellings and one meaning
There are many words in the English language that have two (or more) correct spellings, for example [adviser/advisor](https://cliffordandco.uk/a/#adviser). I’ve suggested a ‘correct’ form for each of these words, based on what’s most usual in UK English and what ‘looks right’. Not that there’s really a right and wrong spelling, but for consistency we need to settle on one form.

## Words with two spellings and two meanings
Some words are spelled in two different ways to mean two different things, such as [discreet and discrete](https://cliffordandco.uk/d/#discreet). The differences are explained.

## Commonly confused words
For example [uncharted and unchartered](https://cliffordandco.uk/u/#uncharted).

## Company, product and brand names
Company names, trademarks and product names where there’s a right and a wrong way of writing them, such as [Coca-Cola](https://cliffordandco.uk/c/#coca-cola), [JavaScript](https://cliffordandco.uk/j/#javascript), and [easyJet](https://cliffordandco.uk/e/#easyjet).

## Place names
For example, why do we write [southern Africa](https://cliffordandco.uk/s/#s-africa) with a lower case S but South Africa with a capital S?

## Words to avoid
Some words you might want to think twice before using: words that risk causing offence, tired metaphors, and some of the more ridiculous examples of corporate-speak.