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:
cereal, serial
“The police have said that the victim was stabbed and are now concerned that they may have a cereal killer on the loose.”
I beg your pardon? Is someone going around stabbing packets of Corn Flakes?
The correct version should be:
“The police have said that the victim was stabbed and are now concerned that they may have a serial killer on the loose.”
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