"Reed\'s Homophones: A comprehensive book of sound-alike words" was born from the conjunction of two semi-related factors.
That parentage engendered a short list of common homophones that seem to attract newspaper reporters as honey does flies: houses "raised" by fires; ac.
Its mother was a series of mistakes in word use that seem to perennially crop up in local newspapers; its father was the author\'s useful but irritating editorial habit of correcting errors wherever and however they arise. "Reed\'s Homophones: A comprehensive book of sound-alike words" was born from the conjunction of two semi-related factors