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Re: is there a word - for typing the wrong homophone ?
Subject:Re: is there a word - for typing the wrong homophone ? From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:07:54 -0700
Homophone confusion. AKA whole language reading.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Monique Semp
<monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>wrote:
> (I just hate it when I reread a message that I’ve sent, and see that, for
> example, I’ve typed “their” instead of “they’re”. And I’m so hoping that
> there’s a word to describe this phenomena. But at least I can confidently
> distinguish among homonyms, homophones, and homographs now:
>http://www.spellingcity.com/homophones-and-homonyms.html :-)
>
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