Re: homophones

[Sarah Mahoney <smahoney -at- U -dot- WASHINGTON -dot- EDU>]

My pet peeve is "your" versus "you're."
Along the same lines as Vickie's "its" versus "it's."

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On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

> One that's annoying me, from a couple of weeks ago: I bought
> Octavia Butler's new novel, _Parable of the Sower_, in hardcover
> (published by Four Walls Eight Windows). It's a well-written
> novel (though grim), but I kept getting annoyed by the lack of
> proofreading. It seems that they just fed it through a spell-checker.
> Lots of little things: "peddling" for "pedaling" and repeated use
> of "it's" for "its," which are annoying in the daily paper and,
> in my not so humble opinion, inexcusable in a $22 hardcover novel.
> One or two I could have overlooked, but I resented having paid the
> higher price for what is supposed to be a better production job,
> and not gotten it.

> But the worst thing I've seen lately (not strictly a homophone,
> I suppose) is "its'" instead of "its." The it's/its confusion,
> while annoying, at least has the minimal justification that both
> are real words: there is no excuse for "its'."

> Vicki Rosenzweig
> vr%acmcr -dot- uucp -at- murphy -dot- com
> New York, NY