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.”
