Reed's Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words

Reeds Homophones offers a serious but light-hearted overview of several thousand homophone pairs that confuse readers and writers of English. Along with an explanation of the Latin and Greek root words that are found as prefixes in hundreds of English words the book delves into mondegreens neologisms odd synonyms and antonyms and a few of the authors pet peeves and includes a handy list of easily confused words.This book was created to be used and enjoyed by anyone who loves the English language. Though originally compiled to help professional writers and editors it should prove equally useful to business owners marketing specialists undergraduates students and teachers of ESL bloggers . . . in short anyone who loves the language and wants to write well enough that the words they use dont come back to haunt or embarrass them.