Good grief. How has this post been accumulating examples of annoyingly easy-to-confuse words for over four years and not yet got latitude and longitude?

(An especially annoying pair since they're not only lexically similar, but also used in confusing circumstances, specifically the way people always talk about a 'line of Xitude' which of course points at 90 degrees to the direction the Xitude coordinate is actually measuring.)

Anyway, these ones have an easy fix: we should rename them Snourth and Weast.