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.”
