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When to Use Persons, People, and Peoples
Is it persons, people or peoples? In most cases, people is the correct term to use as a plural for the word person. The word persons is considered archaic, so unless you’re doing some legal writing, it’s best to avoid it. Meanwhile, peoples is only used to refer to distinct ethnic groups, oftentimes within the same region. People Vs. Persons as Plurals […]
Which to Use: Preventive or Preventative?
The English language contains over one million words, and many of them are extremely similar! For instance, let’s take a look at the words preventative and preventive. Is there a difference between them? Preventative and preventive are two different ways to spell the same word. Both words mean “designed to keep something undesirable from occurring.” How to Use […]
Empathic Vs. Empathetic: Which is Correct?
One of our readers recently wrote in with a question about the difference between the words empathic and empathetic. They mentioned that they recently read a book where the adjective empathic was frequently used to describe people who possess empathy. However, they were used to using the word empathetic, and upon looking up both words, they found both were […]

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