Hey! Get It Right, Can’t Ya?!
I think I know what my first published work is going to be. When I was 10, I started writing a Homonym Dictionary (they call them homophones now). You know what homonyms and homophones are (no, not the nicknames of openly gay individuals nor the earphones they wear with their portable CD players) — they’re […]
That Pallet of Palettes Isn’t Heavy….
Okay, here are three words that sound almost exactly alike, but mean totally different things. Pallet: /PA’ lit/ The slatted wooden box that underlies large shipments; also the shipment itself. A pallet jack is a small hydraulic jack/forklift used to hoick a pallet of goods off the warehouse floor and transport it onto a semi […]
Don’t Confuse These Two!
Here is a mistake I am seeing more and more often. It bugs the heck outta me. Where is an adverb meaning “in what location.” Were is a verb, the past tense of “to be,” meaning “formerly” or “existed in the past.” Perhaps the mistakes I am seeing are the result of sloppy typing. If […]