# Words one can get confused

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> [@Deaths that sort of define a person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deaths-that-sort-of-define-a-person/986999/248):
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> However, if Kennedy mishandled the Cuban Missile Crisis, it could very well have resulted in nuclear war between two superpowers. That would have changed the coarse of history significantly—for the worse.

**course** - a direction or route taken or to be taken; the path, route, or channel along which anything moves.

**coarse** - composed of relatively large parts or particles; lacking in fineness or delicacy of texture, structure, etc.:

**cause** - a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect; the reason or motive for some human action:

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