It's Christmas Eve. And since tomorrow I'll be unable to escape the primordial Land Without Internet, this week's post comes a day early. Consider it an early Christmas gift. Or your fifth Hanukkah gift. Or maybe we're just really late for Diwali.
At any rate, whatever you celebrate, happy holi-
A visual exploration of words that look the same, sound the same, or are otherwise easily confused. Updated weakly through 2016, now only occasionally. The book version "Homophones Visualized" is available wherever books are sold. Thanks for checking in!
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Cent, Scent, Sent
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Ant & Aunt
Not to be confused. One communicates mainly by scent. And the other can lift many times its own body weight.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Capital & Capitol
With an A – refers to uppercase letters, an accumulation of available wealth (with some indecipherable Econ 101 definition, I'm sure), or a city which is the seat of a country's or state's government.
With an O – the building itself used by a country's or state's legislative officials.
And don't forget, Capitol must always be capitalized.
"I'm going to take all my capital out of the bank and spend it on a trip to our nation's capital, where I'll write an angrily misspelled protest sign in capital letters and hold it up in front of the Capitol."
With an O – the building itself used by a country's or state's legislative officials.
And don't forget, Capitol must always be capitalized.
"I'm going to take all my capital out of the bank and spend it on a trip to our nation's capital, where I'll write an angrily misspelled protest sign in capital letters and hold it up in front of the Capitol."
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