Sunday, December 19, 2010

Grammar Matters

Some of the geotweeps were bemoaning the misuse of homonyms like two, too and to, or your vs. you're, yesterday. So I decided to try to console them...

There, they're, their, it's all write now.

2 comments:

jrepka said...

Couldn't you have gone all the way with:

"there, their, they're, its awl write know"

"awl" and "know" are probably stretching it, but using the possessive "its" certainly brings it home for me.

I once came across a short essay extolling the benefits of spell-check that used nothing but homonyms...

Lockwood said...

@jrepka- Love it! The "awl" didn't even occur to me, and I remember pausing to make sure I was using the right form of it's, when I should have chosen the wrong form. I think I've seen that essay too.