Lightning\u00a0recap. Homophones\u00a0are words that have\u00a0a similar\u00a0pronounciation but different\u00a0 spelling and different meanings. They\u00a0continue to be the bane of literate society.<\/p>\n
The following homophones brought some levity to my dismal week of copy chopping:<\/p>\n
An email from a client, with a rhetorical comment on my editing \u2013 bristling with red tracking, remarked, “I hope I haven’t given you to many grey hairs?” Now I’d love to have replied: “Some, yes. But not as many as at the bottom of my garden. And if that’s too cryptic an answer, do a to-too tango with your question. Then look at my answer and imagine my grey lawn rabbits in a line, marching backwards in indignation. Yup, that’s what your homophonic hitch provoked… by analogy \u2013 a receding hare-line. And lots of mirth in the process.”<\/p>\n
From\u00a0a writers’ freelancer E-group came the following personal announcement, “Folks, I’m sorry I’ve been so scares lately, but…” Now I’d loved to have replied (but was tripped up by a hefty dollop of decorum inculcated by\u00a0exemplary parents): “Absence is certainly not as scary as a homophonic clanger!”<\/p>\n
Curiously, I\u00a0fell victim to\u00a0my own\u00a0rant\u00a0by\u00a0opening\u00a0the draft with “Lightening” instead of “Lightning”! A variation on Muphrey’s Law perhaps? Which homophones have assailed your eyes of late and what might you have loved to have replied?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lightning\u00a0recap. Homophones\u00a0are words that have\u00a0a similar\u00a0pronounciation but different\u00a0 spelling and different meanings. They\u00a0continue to be the bane of literate society. The following homophones brought some levity to my dismal week of copy chopping: An email from a client, with a … Continue reading