Kristina Gopp's fourth-graders at O'Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “What's the difference between a homonym and a homophone and a homograph?” Is it an animal, vegetable or mineral? In the game ...

FUN WITH HOMONYMS….Matt Yglesias, whose homonym misspellings are indeed legendary, offers up this explanation: I think you’ll see if you look around that a large portion of my generation (i.e., those ...

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This is not a ferry tail, but I worn you that it’s rather difficult to reed. A marry old lady lives on a country rode, close enough two town so that she can wok to the store to bye her groceries. She ...

"Do you believe my tears can tear up the world?" Well, if you are a native English speaker, you probably feel nothing special about this sentence. An English learner however must contend with the two ...