"Do you believe my tears can tear up the world?" Well, if you are a native English speaker, you probably feel nothing special about this sentence. An English learner however must contend with the two ...

Kristina Gopp's fourth-graders at O'Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “What's the difference between a homonym and a homophone and a homograph?” Is it an animal, vegetable or mineral? In the game ...

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FUN WITH HOMONYMS….Matt Yglesias, whose homonym misspellings are indeed legendary, offers up this explanation: I think you’ll see if you look around that a large portion of my generation (i.e., those ...