Sunday, September 29, 2013

Correspondence & Correspondents

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-ence – (n.) Remote communication (usually written) between two or more people. -ents – (plural n.) The people doing the communicating.
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Weak & Week

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My apologies to any latter-day Mayans out there who don't recognize the image on the right as a calendar.
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Waist & Waste

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As my lovely wife Vanessa  put it, "Some people waste away to get a smaller waist."
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Wade & Weighed

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I'll be surprised if I Wade through my emails tomorrow and no one has Weighed in on the fact that I've basically used the same drawi...
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Wait & Weight

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Precede & Proceed

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Precede – take place ahead of something/someone else. Proceed – advance, move forward. First you wait for everyone who precedes you in lin...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Their, There, They're

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OK, I'm finally tackling one of the dreaded apostrophe homophones. Took two years to build up the courage... and think of appropriate il...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

"Pique" amendment

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A couple weeks ago I made the egregious error of omitting "pique" from Peak & Peek . Consider this little striptease my apolog...
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Might & Mite

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Might can be a noun referring to strength, but can also be an auxiliary verb expressing possibility. The guy on the left is showing his migh...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Hay & Hey

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Next time your teacher/parent/parole officer tells you, "Hey is for horses," you send 'em a link to this site and explain that...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Peak & Peek

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If I could take a peek at the peak of my career, I wonder if I would be looking into the past or the future... Update: Please...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Leak & Leek

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With an A – undesirable drip. Double E – desirable vegetable.
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Tare & Tear

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-are – weight of an empty container. -ear – rip.

Way, Weigh, Whey

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As in, "There's more than one way to weigh whey."
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Thyme & Time

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Now I just need homophones for parsley, sage, and rosemary. And Garfunkel.
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Flea & Flee

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-ea – parasitic insect. -ee – run away! As in, "Run away from the parasitic insect!"
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Tear & Tier

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I always cry at weddings... from boredom.
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Marten & Martin

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With an E – small carnivorous mammal, a member of the weasel family. With an I – small insectivorous bird, a member of the swallow family. ...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Whine & Wine

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The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Catch up & Ketchup

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Don't get me started on "catsup."
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