Adopt and Adapt I have just found that I have misspelling a word for a long time. It is adapt. I have learnt this word when I am in high school. However, as I seldom use English in my daily life after I have graduate from high school, I have forgotten how to spell it, although I know the exist of this word. Last year, I get into school which need to use English again. And I need to pick up my English which I have abundant for serval years (although it was bad in the past already). "Adapt", a word usually to be used in writing, people adapt in an environment, adapt in a culture etc. I just used it whenever I want. In an hour before, I was reading my classmate work, she wrote "adopt dog", although I though it is a bit strange, I could understand the meaning because by the flow of passage so I wasn't care with it. Now, I am writing a response paper to a lecture, and I wanted to use the word "adopt" again. I remembered the strange word used by my classmate so I went to search the meaning of "adopt', which is the word I wanted to write. (You might find the tricky point here.) Yes! I had mixed the spelling of "adopt" and "adapt" for a long time! (Started from the beginning of this academic year) To let me remember the difference between "adopt" and "adapt", I am now writing this notebook, so that I won't have the same mistake again. Adapt: adapt to the working environment Adopt: adopt a dog on street Hope me won't get wrong again. And it's time to back to my response paper.