Horrible Homonyms: Don't Let the Soundalikes Get You.
The article focuses on the misuse of homonyms in writing documents. It states that misusing homonyms, which are words which may sound alike, but have different meanings, could destroy any document. It presents an example in which even using word processing program equipped with a built-in spellcheck...
| Publicado en: | Writers' Journal Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 46 - 48 |
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Val-Tech Media
Mar/Apr2011
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the misuse of homonyms in writing documents. It states that misusing homonyms, which are words which may sound alike, but have different meanings, could destroy any document. It presents an example in which even using word processing program equipped with a built-in spellchecker to examine homonym errors failed to identify homonym mistakes including lea and lee, aid and aide, as well as loose and lose. |
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