Okay, most SIGforum members are well educated enough to know when to use to, too, and two, and there, their, and they’re, but how about the following pairs of examples that are pronounced (sound) the same, but have different spellings and meanings?
bear/bare site/sight/cite* discreet/discrete phase/faze waist/waste Or three: weather/whether/wether
What are your examples?
(I’m posting this here [not hear] because obvious word usage errors are becoming more common all the time. I saw the phase/faze error in an otherwise well-edited book I’m reading now about the Studies and Observation Group in Vietnam.)
* Thanks to GaryBF for the addition. This message has been edited. Last edited by: sigfreund,
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March 09, 2019, 04:05 PM
orion5
Braise and braze.
o5
March 09, 2019, 04:17 PM
rizzle
break/brake
March 09, 2019, 05:02 PM
ffips
read/red
read/reed
piece/peace
wood/would
hare/hair
nose/knows
March 09, 2019, 05:18 PM
egregore
You rein in people or actions you wish to control or curtail, as in the reins used to control a horse. Not reign in. You toe a line, not tow it. And military weaponry is ordnance, not ordinance. (The last one, strictly speaking, is not a homophone, but is similar enough to include.)
March 09, 2019, 05:33 PM
Phelen_Kell
soul/sole
and not a homophone but I get so sick of seeing this on FB sale pages.
I have something to sale I want to sale I got tired of writing "sell"
March 09, 2019, 05:56 PM
jhe888
Manner, manor. Which aren't even perfect homophones.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
March 09, 2019, 05:59 PM
detroit192
Know I do not No.
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March 09, 2019, 06:08 PM
Patrick-SP2022
Ewe, yew, and you.
March 09, 2019, 06:09 PM
GaryBF
breach, breech
sigfreund, you forgot "cite" in your post.
March 09, 2019, 09:45 PM
P250UA5
Affect / effect
The Enemy's gate is down.
March 09, 2019, 10:00 PM
trapper189
I assume they take quarters just like a regular phone.
March 09, 2019, 11:47 PM
shiftyvtec
^ made me lol.
Sale/sail Pear/pair/pare Seem/seam
March 10, 2019, 01:26 AM
LS1 GTO
By, bye, and buy
Blew and blue
Add and ad
Way, weigh, and whaywhey (thanks trapper)
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March 10, 2019, 06:29 AM
clubleaf206
Fair/Fare
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March 10, 2019, 07:18 AM
Patrick-SP2022
Pale and pail.
March 10, 2019, 08:59 AM
V-Tail
Frequently mis-used on this forum:
site
sight
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March 10, 2019, 09:31 AM
PD
As Redd Foxx used to say, you gotta wash it cuz the nose knows.
March 10, 2019, 10:12 AM
.38supersig
If you have a muzzle break, that means you need to buy another one.
March 10, 2019, 10:31 AM
sigfreund
quote:
Originally posted by P250UA5: Affect / effect
I actually pronounce those two slightly differently. On the other hand, I pronounce ordnance and ordinance the same, so I suppose one person’s homophone is another’s dialect.
Thanks for the other examples. I believe that thus far braise/braze is the pair that I would have been least likely to think of myself.
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato
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