It’s hard to write a first draft without having at least one homophone hiding in your manuscript, trying to let you down. The aim of the game is to spot it before anyone else does. Here are a few that are commonly written but not commonly spotted, or so it seems:
Draw - With a pencil
Drawer - Put pencils in
Illusive - Illusion-like
Elusive - Hard to catch, hard to see
Bowel - Inside of you
Bowl - Eat from (shouldn't be inside of you!)
Manner - The way which you act
Manor - A grand house. Inside, you should probably show good manners
Faint - What I do when I see blood.
Feint - What you may do to confuse an attacker and not lose blood
Lose - When you don't win or when you can't find something (like that second 'o')
Loose - Opposite of tight. There are room for lots of Os.
Note, these are not definitions, but simple differences to help split the two apart. Some of them aren't technically full homophones as they only sound somewhat similar, but they do crop up too much. Here are a few more that are regularly go unnoticed.
Draw - With a pencil
Drawer - Put pencils in
Illusive - Illusion-like
Elusive - Hard to catch, hard to see
Bowel - Inside of you
Bowl - Eat from (shouldn't be inside of you!)
Manner - The way which you act
Manor - A grand house. Inside, you should probably show good manners
Faint - What I do when I see blood.
Feint - What you may do to confuse an attacker and not lose blood
Lose - When you don't win or when you can't find something (like that second 'o')
Loose - Opposite of tight. There are room for lots of Os.
Note, these are not definitions, but simple differences to help split the two apart. Some of them aren't technically full homophones as they only sound somewhat similar, but they do crop up too much. Here are a few more that are regularly go unnoticed.
