Stupid homonyms
 

I don't know how many times in recent months I've looked back at something I've written and lo and behold, a sound-alike wrong word! For example, "near where he was last scene." Or "she has three groan children."

I don't know what part of my brain is broken to cause this, but it drives me nuts. Why can't I see it while I'm doing it? It's so obvious! Aaaaargh!

:o I do the same thing. Funny, the other day I was thumbing thru my journal (it is almost finished so I like to go back and reread what I wrote) I saw so many of those mistakes!

I'm guilty of doing this too.

"here" and "hear" are probably my worst.

You're not alone...I do it, too! I proofread my posts before I hit "submit" and it never fails.....I'll go back and read them again after I've posted and the most obvious, glaring typo pops out at me. I cannot figure it out. I guess I have selective vision.

I do it a lot too , most times I forget to edit so it looks like huh:yikes:

Yep, I use to be an A+ at spelling and grammar. The last few years, not so much.:( I could at one time type 100 wpm with zero errors. Now for whatever reason my finger will not hit the R key most of the time. It is the one letter I continually have to backup and correct. Drives me nuts!

I have the same problem. I find the mistakes after I have done I post. I am always spelling just as "jsut." I tell my students to always proofread. Now I find I need to take my own advice.

all the time... and unfortunately, spell-check doesn't catch them...

:o

they're, there, their
hear, here
aid, aide
cites, sites, sights
council, counsel
creak, creek
deer, dear
flour, flower
foul, fowl
gate. gait
heel, heal
lone, loan
marry, merry
meat, meet, mete
minor, miner
overdue, overdo
paws, pause
peek, peak, pique
rain, rein, reign
read, reed
rote, wrote
road, rode
team, teem
towed, toed, toad
vice, vise
waste, waist
weak, week
whine, wine

I figure it's some short circuit in my speech and language area of the brain.

2kids..heheeh are you from Massachusetts...they like to drop the R when speaking..and thought maybe your hands just dont want to R either if you are on northeast coast...hehehehheeee

all kidding aside, I have done a lot of typos too that I dont notice...or spell like it might sound...like I just started typing knowtice for notice....:eek:

hugsss all,sarah

Me too and other typing mistakes (lots - I always have to edit as when proofread ing miss major mistakes. (Made 5 mistakes hust typing this)(Another one!!)