A rash of homonym errors in the paper suggests over-reliance on spell-check systems, which usually fail to pick up on such misusage. There remains no substitute for clear-eyed editing, and our ...

One of my fellow instructors in the Master of Science in Information Assurance program at Norwich University recommended this paper by Staff Sergeant Cory Mazzola of the U.S. Air Force. Here is ...

Beware the homonyms. August 4, 2017. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at the White House in Washington on July 25. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

I very much enjoyed reading Jason Courtmanche’s op-ed, “A Well-Timed Embrace Can Last A Lifetime,” in the September 24 newspaper. But isn’t it sadly ironic that the director… ...

In fact, Venn diagrams are so much fun to make that you can find plenty of others on the internet that show the relationship between homophones, homonyms, and homographs. The trouble is, the well ...

The homonyms are bear, spelt B-E-A-R, with the first meaning an animal that looks cute but is really rather dangerous, and the second meaning to tolerate something.

Eartheater's 'Homonyms' Is A Waking Dream Alexandra Drewchin's psychedelic music is at once familiar and mutated. In this lush video, she plays a tie-dyed creation and creator who leads a group of ...

The dribble/drivel confusion is actually a common one among citizen journalists. It is an example of what I call the Law of Add Homonym attacks, which authorizes the flagrant confusion of words ...

The Homonym Monster can strike any time, without warning. For instance, if one-sided conversation at a cocktail party leaves you zoning into an alpha state, glassy-eyed and yawning, ...

“I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?” ~ Jarod Kintz OK, I’m sitting on my couch with a cat on either side of me and a ...