KEEPIN' COOL -- JAZZ -- HOMOPHONES

Keepin’ cool!   Seems the smart thing to do here in Southern California where our temperatures are staying in high nineties into the three-digit figures with humidity levels varying – no rain -- so I just take it slow, an’ the livin’ is easy …..

Do jazz aficionados ever wonder about the names of some of today’s talent?  Here’s a taste from Barcelona -- Andrea Motis, with a sultry voice singing a classic George and Ira Gershwin tune, “Summertime.”   Later she plays a moody muted horn.  She’s joined by The Joan Chamorro Quintet and Scott Hamilton featuring his sax solo, others with guitar and piano.   Album:  Live at Jamboree - Barcelona

All this easy livin’ as I hide out from the heat has my mind indulging itself with all sorts of thoughts.    One of which is that I’ve noticed I have a homophone problem with a couple of words.  I know these two words well, their meanings and their differences, never mix them up when I'm consciously writing them, but sometimes when I’m rapidly, more automatically writing a thought containing either of these words, they end up spelled incorrectly.  I don’t understand why that happens, but I usually catch the error when I proof-read before publishing. 

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and may be spelled differently, too…..two…..to.     

In my case, their is no reason why there use should be mixed up.  Get it?

(Interestingly, to me, is that in the sentence above for the first time I noticed my Word program just automatically self-corrected the first “their” to the correct “there”, so I had to change it back to the incorrect spelling to make my point, but the “there” did not get corrected to “their”.  Go figure!)

This reminded me again of just how challenging learning our English language can be for others.
This is only one of the complications learning English can present.

Just for fun, as I was thinking about this, I came up with some other homophones.   Then I borrowed a few more such words from the Oxford-Royale website you can visit by clicking  HERE. 

By, Bye, Buy

Course, Coarse

Ewe, You

Flew, Flue

Great, Grate

Here, Hear

Eye, I

No, Know

Made, Maid

Peace, Piece

Raise, Raze, Rays, Rase
Red, Read

Steak, Stake

Write, Right

Feel free to add any more homophones that might come to your mind.  

Are there other word glitches you discover when you edit what you write?