(WKBT) -- A man claims he was fired from the English learning center where he worked because his boss thought a blog post about homophones would associate the school with homosexuality. To be clear: ...

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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.

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.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last column, we talked about a bumper crop of “acorns.” This time, it’s a bumper crop of “eggcorns.” One incorrect ...