What do hordes of harried shoppers hoard? That’s what I want to know after reading this on Yahoo! DIY:
For people concerned about the impression they make, correct grammar is a chance to display their intelligence to friends and family (and maybe instill pride in themselves, too).
People who write correctly know not to change person in a sentence.They know that if you start writing about “people on a budget” you don’t switch to “yourself,” but rather use the pronoun “themselves” because its antecedent is “people.”
November 30, 2014 at 7:56 pm
Yahoo! is surely a great place to stock up on new homonyms.
November 30, 2014 at 8:41 pm
I’ve seen some homophonic errors that I’ve never seen anywhere else — including all those lists of “commonly confused words.” Yahoo writers seem to have a unique gift for creating never-before-seen mistakes.
November 30, 2014 at 9:10 pm
I wondered it there was one of these, and there is:
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm
“An English Homophone Dictionary”
… as in, British English.
There are 13 rule for omitting words (e.g., “we omit homophones that are spelled alike, e.g. bear, bear”). See esp. #12.