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This makes up for my not finishing the
short story, uh,novella, uh,novel, uh series of books that I started intending to use as May First’s entry in Group Writing.There’s great and grate. Sun and son. Wood and would. Road and rode. I could go on for hours, since I’ve goofed with every one of them. I’ll stack up a few and go again.
Those are grate!
Raze and raise.
Britain is a country (well, by some definitions it’s a set of countries under one crown). A resident of the place is called a Briton. The difference in pronunciation is microscopic.
I’ve had problems mixing up “averse” and “adverse”, mostly because of the similarities, but also because they both refer to something you shun or shy away from.
Chevy makes fenders by putting metal in a mould. But if you leave the seat fabrics out in the rain, they get moldy.
When I got write their I thought eye would sea: pear and pare.
Interesting! Wikipedia disagrees with you on this (emphasis and comment mine.)
(I was taught the same as what Wikipedia says; your definition is one I’ve not heard of before. Not to say there’s only one definition in common use.)
You’ve already mentioned “read.” Sometimes I hit it when I’m reading, pick the wrong version in my head, and discover that by the end of the sentence that I have departed controlled flight.
Hole and whole. I just made that mistake recently, believe it or not. Some kind Samaritan set me straight.
Better to raise a child than raze a city?
Nobody asked, but I like nouns that are verbs and verbs that are nouns–gorge and gorge, wax and wax.
That is a fine triplet with some dialects.
How about nouns turned into verbs-impact and impact?
Well, the homophones such as rose and rose (or desert and desert or desert and desert) don’t cause problems. It’s only the ones with the same pronunciation and different spellings that lead us down the wrong road. But, yes, to be complete, those are also homophones, but they are also homographs. All I care about is the heterographic homophones.
Are you ever in controlled flight? You probably need some spinach to correct that. Preferably on a pizza.
When you’re digging in that hole, it can get you in a whole lot of trouble.
As long as it’s not “Don’t disrespect me.”
Just as long as you don’t think a verb is a noun when there is a perfectly good noun out there. We could have a serious disconnection over that.
Is there going to be a test??
Menace.
Plenty of room for mistakes.
Oh, Lordy! The problem is often that the noun and verb homographs don’t necessarily have the same meaning. Impact/impact, effect/effect, affect/affect are all examples of that.
Well, what do you expect from a redneck Georgia cracker hillbilly?
We’d all fail it if there were.
Are you from Georgia? Florida (cracker)? Or Michigan (hillbilly)?
I expect a lot from Georgians.
‘hant, how about this trio?: I, aye, and eye.
Aye, aye, sir. I have a mote in my eye.
I have a few fairly odd permanent glitches. One is a complex involving the numeral 8 and the capital letter E; it may have happened when I encountered the “there exists” symbol which is a mirror-imaged ‘E’. When counting, I’m very likely to make an error at 88.
Oh, aye. And then there’s the aye-aye.
Degenerate.
Not quite a crossed homonym, but I once worked with someone who had a habit of saying “blown a casket” — as in, “When Jerry found out that I ate the last scoop of ice cream, he blew a casket!”
I’ve heard of grave-robbing, but never grave-bombing.