Common Errors Encyclopedia
Every English usage error explained anywhere on this site, in one place — grouped by why the mistake happens, not just what it is. Find yours below, or start with the full 45-error guide.
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Per article
Indian English Errors — 45 Common Mistakes Explained
Redundancy, false friends, stative-verb errors, office-English fossils, and idiom mix-ups — all on one page, categorised, with corrections.
Redundancy — Saying It Twice
Words or phrases that already contain their own meaning — adding more doesn't add meaning, it just repeats it.
False Friends & Invented Words
Words that either mean something different abroad, or were never real English words to begin with.
Colonial & Legal-Office Fossils
Formal phrases from British-era administrative English that India kept using long after Britain dropped them.
Hindi & Bengali Discourse Calques
Phrases translated word-for-word from an Indian language — grammatical in the original, confusing in English.
Grammar Double-Structures & Confusables
Two grammatical forms doing the same job in one sentence, where English only allows one.
General Writing Craft
Not Indian-English specific — mistakes any writer can make, in any English-speaking country.
Understanding & Fluency
Not wrong-vs-right corrections — these explain habits that slow down reading or speaking fluency itself.
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