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Let's take a look at these three terms - homophones, homographs or homonyms - and find out their meaning because they affect us in one way or another. Read on to learn more! Homophones are words that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.