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Do you know the difference between a pear and a pair? Do you care? Do you feel horror when you see misused words, but perhaps guilty pleasure, too? Then Misused Pears is for you.Words that sound alike but have different spellings are called homonyms.MoreDo you know the difference between a pear and a pair? Do you care? Do you feel horror when you see misused words, but perhaps guilty pleasure, too? Then Misused Pears is for you.Words that sound alike but have different spellings are called homonyms. They dont cause any trouble in speech, but writers often have trouble using the right one.Sometimes our fingers think they know better than our heads. Then we fail to notice that we typed here instead of hear. We might look at it a dozen times and not see that its wrong--after all, we know what we meant to write. Alas, once something goes out into the world, thats when we see it.Careful writers have that experience. Others? How could a careful writer use where instead of wear? And thats just one of the dreadful--and delightful--grammatical train wrecks the All-Purpose Guru has witnessed! Misused pears, or, fun mistakes with homonyms by David M. Guion
