| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| accept, except (vv.) |
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| Because these verbs are often homophones, they are sometimes inadvertently written or printed for each other, but confusion in speech is unlikely and usually undetectable: accept means “to grant, to receive, to submit to, to answer yes, to agree to be a member or to take a position” and has several other specialized senses: Oberlin accepted her as a transfer student. Except as a verb means “to take out, to leave out, to take exception to”: I except from my anger anyone who has already paid. (Except is also a conjunction, usually followed by that, and a preposition, but it seems not to pose any particular usage problems in these functions.) | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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