Post: #51

(09-21-2014 12:59 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  glamourize / glamorize.

I meant to write glamourise / glamorize

Post: #52

(09-21-2014 02:25 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  I meant to write glamourise / glamorize

Not just spelling differences?

I have another one:

Allusion/Illusion

Post: #53

Malay / melee (or melée)

Post: #54

Meddle / Medal

Razed / Raised

Post: #55

(09-21-2014 02:25 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 12:59 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  glamourize / glamorize.

I meant to write glamourise / glamorize

Those two words are the same. The former is just British English and the latter is American English. They don't really qualify as homonyms.

Post: #56

Who's versus whose is a pet peeve of mine.

Post: #57

I just saw these used on the forum:

Weather instead of Whether

Mute instead of Moot i.e. moot point (actually, they sound different when said so I'm not sure how they're confused).

Post: #58

I worked on military stuff for YEARS without knowing that "hanger" and "hangar" are different things. I wrote the former when I meant the latter likely no less than two thousand times. I must've looked like the biggest moron in the room.

Don't make my mistake.

Post: #59

Stationery / Stationary

I've definitely been guilty of that one.

Post: #60

(09-27-2014 11:50 AM)game_ethic Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 02:25 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 12:59 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  glamourize / glamorize.

I meant to write glamourise / glamorize

Those two words are the same. The former is just British English and the latter is American English. They don't really qualify as homonyms.

Yeah that was my point, they are the same. If you go to my original post I was responding to a question by Brodiaga, whom I believe is not a native English speaker, but I botched my point originally:

/thread-40325-...#pid835273

dissent / descent / decent

Post: #61

Sp5 Wrote:  Yeah that was my point, they are the same. If you go to my original post I was responding to a question by Brodiaga, whom I believe is not a native English speaker, but I botched my point originally:

/thread-40325-...#pid835273

dissent / descent / decent

Ah, didn't see that. My apologies.

Post: #62

These are actually all homophones and not homonyms.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone

Post: #63

(09-28-2014 01:01 PM)texas Wrote:  These are actually all homophones and not homonyms.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone

I knew I should have titled this "Avoid homo mistakes and look smarter"

Post: #64

Quote:Meddle / Medal

and mettle.

Post: #65

Ok, we'll just continue with the homophones as if I didn't make a mistake making me look dumber.

Just saw this in a comment elsewhere:

"bare in mind"

bear / bare

Post: #66

corps / core / corpse

causes some confusion, i.e. Obama's referring to Navy "corpsemen"

Post: #67

Berth / Birth

Borne / Born

Post: #68

True homonym: pool / pool

Area in which people swim versus another name for billiards.

Post: #69

Homonym / Hominem (as in Ad Hominem argument)

Post: #70

b / be
c / see
o / oh
r / are
u / you
y / why

Text message shorthand drives me up the wall. Even my mother, 60 years old, uses this shit. If you are over age twelve and too lazy to spell a 3-letter word, prepare to be dealt with like a twelve year old. A former close friend, with whom I've not spoken in five years, wrote me out of the blue last spring. Not a text message. Full transcript of his enquiry: "r u alive?" This is a thirty-four year old grown man, college educated, fully employed, a home-owner, and with a wife and two children. What is most perplexing is how a grown man would assume that sort of message would garner a responce from anyone.

Post: #71

a part - apart
formally - formerly
alot - a lot (I admittedly wrote this one for a while)
physical - fiscal

Post: #72

just saw a misuse of wreak / reek , which earlier Windom pointed out, in a comment.

Not wreak of desperation, reek of desperation.

Post: #73

(10-05-2014 04:32 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  just saw a misuse of wreak / reek , which earlier Windom pointed out, in a comment.

Not wreak of desperation, reek of desperation.

And to follow on from that...

Disparate / Desperate

Personnel / Personal

Gait / Gate

Pail / Pale

Post: #74

Sleight / Slight

Post: #75

(10-10-2014 11:15 PM)Windom Earle Wrote:  Sleight / Slight

maybe slate, too. I could see someone writing "slate of hand."

exercise / exorcise