A Gift to Writers

One more for you

I would edit the macro to highlight "cloths", since it is frequently used on this site in lieu of the proper word "clothes".

Thank you for this.

Thank you..

I don't write stories, but I do know the proper word to use when talking about or describing a situation.
As I reader it bothers me as it sometime destroys the moment.
No, I would not end reading the story (ie: "baby.. bathwater") but a properly written project is far more enjoyable..

poisoned gift

Your first sentence screws the pooch... using an apostrophe to pluralize 'homonym.'

Also -

Into/in to
waste/waist
ensure/insure
enquire/inquire
Plus, you've misspelt 'concious'! It SHOULD be 'conscious'!

Good effort!

I'd also add:
lets/let's
than/then
breath/breathe
aureole/a ureola/areola
cloth/clothe (as someone else suggested)
lay/laid/lie
sat/set
cents/sense/since/s cents
write/right

Some searches would need to find whole words only, others not so much.

Also, if you're using Word you can/should turn on grammar checking and verify the things that Word itself highlights. Sometimes it's right, sometimes not.

Just my to/too/TWO CENT'S/sense/since/scents worth... ;)

Thanks, I hope folks use it...

It's a good start. One that often catches me is "dominate/dominant". Dominate is a verb. "She dominated him", "I can dominate with the best of them". Dominant is a descriptive noun, an adjective. "She is dominant", "he is a dominant male". Mixing them up just brings the sentence to a halt.

Thanks TX

Just installed it and it works beautifully. This will help. On one of my last stories I meant to say "meet" and it came out as, you guessed it, "meat." JUST STUPID!

Thanks. I admire your work.

One I hate to see

The one that causes me to want to stop reading is "breath" instead of "breathe" (and the other way around). If our narrator says "I had to catch my breathe"... or ... "I began to breath through my mouth"... it just makes me cringe.

Homonym Police

site/sight/cite

site. a location "a building site."
sight. something to look at. "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado is a beautiful sight."
cite. like a footnote, or as a citation, what the homonym police give you when you misuse/misspell a word. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear weapons. "The author was cited for using principal when he meant principle."

Another one for you...

One I see all the time is "taunt" when "taut" is what's required (e.g. "she stroked his taunt stomach"). I'm sure there are others which will come to mind later.

Quit writing these fuckin' "how to" pieces...

....and get back to "2 moms 2 laps"!!!!! And people, quit fuckin giving this 5 stars, it's NOT fucken hot! DUMBASSES!!!!

Three cheers for educated (taught) nipples!

I see someone mentioned "taunt" but one of my personal peeves is finding "taught" nipples (or tummy) instead of "taut". I found it to be so prevalent on Lit that I had to ask a Brit friend if "taught" might have been some idiosyncratic British variant (it's not).

THANK YOU!

Now, if only more of our authors USE it. I can't tell you how many stories I've given up on, because the author doesn't know the difference between loose and lose, and so many more. It's jarring, and if repeated I will stop reading. Too many people think a spell checker is sufficient.

I swear I hear this buzzing through my head when I read.

Breath and breathe need to be on this list too. Many writers make that error. Thanks for sharing.

You might add a couple more, then/than.
I see these two misused so often.

Thanks for the how to lesson.

And what a gift it is!

In addition to great story lines and characters, how refreshing to not get jarred by stupid grammar. I caught only one in one of your Gamer Grrl stories: adieu where you meant ado. Otherwise, I love the care to every aspect of your writing.

more for the list

Shudder
Shutter
people shudder, windows have shutters.

Lose
loose

waist
waste

While all of the above are not homonyms, they in general are not friends to those who rely on spell checkers as proof readers.

I'm cumminggg

cum and come, also cumming and coming

Bad

This is a bad idea. You are enabling writers to ignore their craft and try to let a computer program do what they need to know how to do already. If a person does not know to use 'too' instead of 'to', Mind instead of mined, bored vs. board, border vs. boarder etc and if they have no clue how to use quotation marks or indent - they need to go take a class in 'English Grammer and Composition', Creative Writing, and another helpful class would be basic Journalism. People cannot become writers simply because they download a program, or because they have a fantasy. I have read many stories by authors in America and Great Britain who write as if it were their third language. Henry Higgins in 'My fair Lady' said,' Why Can't the English Learn to Speak!'. Well, I say: "Why Cannot Writers Simply Learn to Write!" This is basic. One does not hang out a sign proclaiming himself a automotive painter and arm himself with spray cans of paint. You need to learn, and hone, your craft or find some other outlet for your passions. Thank You. I'm not a proofreader, and it has been many years since I stood in front of a class and I'm not perfect. But if I were writing to entertain others I would at least go to the trouble of trying to learn to do it right. And, yes, that is Right instead of Write! Learn Punctuation by all means. It is incredibly distracting to try to follow dialogue when the author clearly has no clue where to place commas and quotation marks. 'He said' and 'She said' are used way more often than necessary and though it puts forth the thoughts, it chops up the flow of the conversation. Encourage Knowledge, not Shortcuts to Ignorance and mediocre work.

This is ...

WAY overdue. It's a shame it is even needed. Here's to American education. It's better to be a fool for a lifetime than to feel a fool for a few minutes in class. PC be damned!

Great contribution

Thanks. Have enjoyed you're stories immensely managing to ignore the ridicules ass-to-mouth inclusions. You break the stereotype of the communication-deficient Texan.

If only offenders would use your macro, learn the differences between the listed homonyms, and then correctly edit their stories, their scores would improve.

Also, I suggest you add "we're", "ware", and "where".