hpr3608 :: Battling with English - part 5
Confused homophones; misunderstanding words from other countries; Eggcorns
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Part of the series: Battling with English
Looking at the English language and highlighting some common anomalies, mistakes, mispellings, grammar problems and similar.
Overview
This time I have three main subjects to discuss, all of them dealing with misunderstandings of words:
- Mistakes made with homophones, one group of examples
- The definition gets a little technical, see the Wikipedia description.
- Misunderstandings of words from other languages
- Pundit
- Looking at Eggcorns (a name chosen from a misspelling of acorn)
- Wikipedia: an alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements
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Links
- Misunderstanding homophones:
- Wikipedia article on homophones
- Confusing reign and rein
- Definitions of reign:
- Definitions of rein:
- Misunderstanding imported words:
- Eggcorns:
- Wikipedia article on Eggcorns
- The Eggcorn Database
- The Eggcorn Forum
- Wikipedia article on Alzheimer’s disease
- Cruel, Clever Cat, by Geoffrey Taylor a joke on the Eggcorn baited breath
- Previous episodes in this series:
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