Quote:
Originally Posted by crich70
And of course there, they're and their. Not to mention You're and your. I remember a sign outside an office at a place I used to work(cleaning crew) that used the wrong form of the word your. I can't recall what the message was (it was over 10 yrs ago) but it always irked me to see the mis-wording of the sentence.
|
As well as the more common 'your' and 'you're', there's also 'yaw' and 'yore', just to make it even more potentially confusing.
BTW, words which sound the same, but have different spellings are called homophones. Words which are spelt the same, but have different meanings are called homographs.