English words which confuse foreigners - how do you explain them? Owing to and due to

Owing To and Due To
I wrote this on the polyglot page in Facebook in reply to a query about which words people find confusing.
Owing to and due to are confusing. Owing to means because of. Due to is caused by. You start a sentence with Owing to. Owing to bad weather, the trains will be late. The lateness of the trains is due to bad weather.

Several times a week I visit Toastmasters Speakers' Clubs in Singapore and the UK and worldwide. I am often invited to be the Grammarian or Language Evaluator because I am a native English speaker.

I present a word of the day. Here is one I presented recently.

American - British English

automobile - car

hood of car - bonnet

cookie - biscuit

fall - autumn

cookie - biscuit

faucet - tap

pants - trousers

sidewalk - pavement

truck  -  lorry

trunk of automobile  - boot of car 

underpants - pants

British English - American

autumn - fall

biscuit - cookie

bonnet of car - hood

car - automobile

Lorry - truck

pants - underpants

pavement - roadway

tap - faucet

trousers - pants

boot of car - trunk of car

Taboo word – Actually!

*Please tap/clap if you hear the word of the day

or the taboo word!

LANGUAGE EVALUATION

COMPLIMENTS I shall be back to compliment those who used the word of the day. J

DELIGHTS I shall listen for delightful words and phrases:

alliteration; assonance; similes; metaphors; repetition, triads.

TIPS I shall offer free tips on:

Americanisms. British English. Singlish. Accents and Vocabulary.

Practising Perfect Pronunciation: l, r, s, t. Intonation and rhythm.

Good Grammar. Tenses; present and past. Articles 'a' and 'the'.

Come and visit one of Singapore's Toastmasters clubs.

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visitlondon.com
visitsingapore.com
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