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As someone who works with words for a living I can say that English is drastically underserviced in many areas. So I made some words up. You’re welcome. Still, as someone who works with words for a ...

A Utah teacher and education blogger says he was fired from the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo after writing a blog post about homophones, though he disputes media reports that he was let go ...

Most writers can distinguish between principal and principle, complement and compliment, and flee and flea. But many of these words, known as homophones, trip up even the most experienced wordsmith.

Letter Character (male):Hi everybody and a big, big, big, welcome to the Homophone Sentence Show! Homophones are what we call two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings. We’ve ...

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. They also have different spellings. These are some homophones that often confuse people. Narrator: Looks like you're in a heap of ...

Bruce Worden is a scientific illustrator by day and a comic book creator by night. One of his projects, "Homophones, Weakly," is dedicated to visualizing "alike" words that we commonly get wrong.

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