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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last column, we talked about a bumper crop of “acorns.” This time, it’s a bumper crop of “eggcorns.” One incorrect ...
Until very recently, Timothy Torkildson blogged for the Nomen Global Language Center-- an ESL school in Provo, Utah. Earlier this month, Mr. Torkildson wrote a blog post explaining why homophones can ...
How context affects spoken word recognition processes during lexical access has been researched intensively over the past 30 years. When a listener hears an ambiguous word, with multiple meanings, in ...
Grammar 101: a homophone is "two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling." An example would be the words "knight" and "night." ...