“Unlocking Language Secrets: Discover the Surprising World of Homophones That Can Trip You Up!”
Remembering Spellings
Wouldn’t it be cool if the built-in spell-check on the world’s most popular word-processing software had a homophone filter? It would work like the find feature, except it would point out all the words in your document that can be classified as homophones.
As far as I know, no such filter exists (at least not in the software I use). So writers and editors have to look for these nagging little typos manually — which is to say we have to proofread our texts carefully.
The funny thing about homophones is that they are rarely misspelled because the writer doesn’t know the correct usage. Usually, the misspelling occurs because the writer made a typo and then missed that typo during proofreading and editing (or failed to proofread and edit altogether).
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