I really hate homonims. Needing to memorize which spelling is used for each case is seriously annoying. Why can’t there just be one spelling for each word? There are a lot of nasty homonims in this world. Here are a few of the most annoying ones:
one/won
two/to/too
their/there/they’re
its/it’s
knight/night
weather/whether
which/witch
presents/presence
pique/peak
Even though I hate pure homonims a lot! I hate near homonims even more. I’m talking about the words that have different sounds but similar spellings and very differant meanings. When I misspell these words, I tend to look like an even bigger idiot than when I misspell homonims. And I hate looking stupid – even though that tends to happen rather frequently.
These are a few of the worst wannabe homonims:
sweet/sweat
threw/through/throw/though/thorough/thought/etc
nether/neither
orange/arrange
college/collage
concur/conquer
counsel/council/conceal
clothes/close
I’m sure there are many many more homonims and near homonims that I misspell on a regular basis. Unfotrunately, I am so bad at recongizing homonims, that I just go about misspelling these words all the time without even attempting to select the correct word.
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This is one category on Jeopardy I have the hardest time with. My boyfriend whizzes right through them.
Of course reading the writing of a person who messes up homonyms is always comical and smile producing...as long as it is not a totally embarrassing situation for that writer. Mom
yeah....Like the word Homonym...
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