HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:

birth, berth

“They weren’t happy with Tim, their work colleague, and gave him a wide birth."

The correct version should be:

“They weren’t happy with Tim, their work colleague, and gave him a wide berth.”

HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:

porn, pawn

“Being short of money, she had no option other than to take her jewellery to the porn shop.”

The correct version should be:

“Being short of money, she had no option other than to take her jewellery to the pawn shop.”

HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:

horse, hoarse

“He’d felt unwell for a while and the sore throat made him feel a little horse.”

An easy mistake to make but, once again, one that a spell checker would have ignored!

The correct version should be:

"He’d felt unwell for a while and the sore throat made him feel a little hoarse.”

TYPO
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HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:

fowl, foul

“The lady wasn’t impressed by the man’s fowl language.”

Was the man doing an impression of a chicken then?

The correct version should be:

"The lady wasn’t impressed by the man’s foul language.”

TYPO
Seen in a shop window in Stockport:

ENTERANCE AROUND THE BACK

I just wish I’d been able to take a photograph but I was driving at the time!

HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:

navel, naval

“The Spanish Armada was beaten by the full might of the English navel force.”

I never knew the English had so much power in their belly buttons!

The correct version should be:

"The Spanish Armada was beaten by the full might of the English naval force.”