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Most writers can distinguish between principal and principle, complement and compliment, and flee and flea. But many of these words, known as homophones, trip up even the most experienced wordsmith.

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. They also have different spellings. These are some homophones that often confuse people. Narrator: Looks like you're in a heap of ...

Until very recently, Timothy Torkildson blogged for the Nomen Global Language Center-- an ESL school in Provo, Utah. Earlier this month, Mr. Torkildson wrote a blog post explaining why homophones can ...

Bruce Worden is a scientific illustrator by day and a comic book creator by night. One of his projects, "Homophones, Weakly," is dedicated to visualizing "alike" words that we commonly get wrong.