When drafting new material, I do my best to ignore my inner editor and press on with the creative flow of ideas. Later when I return to edit the material, I encounter the occasional misuse of a homophone.
For those of you who don't know the definition (myself included, I had to search for it) a homophone is defined as follows: a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning:
- red/read
- right/write/rite
- pray/prey
Most common homophone errors I encounter in my writing:
- their/there/they're
- to/too/two (I never have issue with "two" but it is part of the homophone)
One's I struggle the most with and still have issues using it correctly:
- past vs passed.
Head scratchers discovered in my draft:
" … tied it around his waste."
" … went to there home."
" … he drank a little whine."
"Thinking the damage had past..."
" … waive of dismissal."
" … she proved her metal."
The most baffling one I discovered in my current WIP:
"Know, I won't do that for you." (What??? How on earth did I actually write that?)
So, what are some examples you've discovered in your writing?
For those of you who don't know the definition (myself included, I had to search for it) a homophone is defined as follows: a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning:
- red/read
- right/write/rite
- pray/prey
Most common homophone errors I encounter in my writing:
- their/there/they're
- to/too/two (I never have issue with "two" but it is part of the homophone)
One's I struggle the most with and still have issues using it correctly:
- past vs passed.
Head scratchers discovered in my draft:
" … tied it around his waste."
" … went to there home."
" … he drank a little whine."
"Thinking the damage had past..."
" … waive of dismissal."
" … she proved her metal."
The most baffling one I discovered in my current WIP:
"Know, I won't do that for you." (What??? How on earth did I actually write that?)
So, what are some examples you've discovered in your writing?