Lauren Glen

McKenna Grace expressed she was "honored" to star as an older version of Jan Broberg, a girl who was abducted and sexually abused by her neighbor in the 1970s, in A Friend of the Family: I’m just honored to be playing the roles that are actually my age.

We avoid using them in academic papers. We send text messages or post on social media, hoping that autocorrect will correctly distinguish which version of the word is intended for the sentence. We mumble them rather than pronouncing them confidently in conversations, hoping the listener won't notice that we're not sure which form of the word is appropriate for the situation. Then there are those pesky words in the English language that have multiple spellings, each with its own distinct meaning.

English speakers love to use words to make comparisons, hoping to further illustrate scenarios with expressions that demonstrate the depth or details of a situation. When describing contrasting sides, saying things like, "They fight like cats and dogs," or, "They're as different as the sun and the moon" helps drive home how completely opposite they are. But are they, really? According to Merriam-Webster, not so much. Below are word pairs that people use as opposites that aren't.