Commonly Confused Words

Hey Meepers! I thought I'd give this forum-game thing a try. This game uses something that I genially dislike about the English language: Homophones. If you don't know what a homophone is,

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.
The rules for this game are quite simple:

• Do not do rhymes. These are not Homophones
• No more than 1 Homophone per post, must wait 1 post before posting another Homophone
• Follow this syntax when making a post:

Code:

"Word1"
"Word2"
*Insert additional comments here*

Have fun!


"right"
and
"write"
I thought I'd kick the thread off by writing one.

 

paincake the staff and pancakes the food

@PainCakexx1997

 

Flower
Flour
I picked a flower
I choked my cousin David with flour

 

you ok?

 

Die
and Dye

I kinda dyed my hands green with a marker...

 

buy
by
ill buy ur mum
ill pass by ur mum

 

I'm pretty much okay now, but you'd be surprised what goes through a 7 year old's head

 

desert and dessert
dear and deer

 

Aisle
Isle
I walked down the Aisle
I started a skyblock Isle

 

You're
Your
You're definitely qualified for this position, everything about you points towards it.
Your traits make you one of the kindest people I've met in my life.

 

A lot
Allot

I'd like to allot a lot of lots.

 

Hole and whole

 

affect and effect.

 

Can I do Their, They're, and there?

 

Its
It's

It's surprising that its foot was healthy enough to support the animal's body.

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 8, 2016, Original Post Date: Mar 8, 2016 ---

Also, while not a homophone, the sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is grammatically correct.

"Buffalo buffalo": Buffalo from Buffalo, N.Y.; the usage is like "chicken soup" or "arms race"
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo": this contains a reduced relative clause, allowing one to remove the pronoun "that." The third "buffalo" is an alternate definition, a synonym to the more common "bully."
"Buffalo buffalo": Same as the first one.

So altogether, the sentence roughly means: "Buffalo from Buffalo, N.Y. that [other] buffaloes from Buffalo N.Y. bully, are bullied by [other] Buffalo buffaloes."

Or this one: "Rose rose to put rose roes on her rows of roses." (Rose got out of bed to put rose-colored salmon eggs on her rose garden).

"He jarred ajar a jar of Jar-Jar's jarred charred chard and char giardiniera."

im a rulebreaker suck it