Reed's Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words. This item is unavailable.Reed's Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words

"Move over, Webster, Oxford, and Roget — make room on the bookshelf for Reed." — Glennys Christie, newspaper editor & publisher

Houses are "raised" by fire. Actors show real "flare." Witnesses wait with "baited" breath. Spell check approves every one of these errors — and your readers notice every one of them.

Reed's Homophones is the comprehensive A-to-Z guide to English's sound-alike words: thousands of homophones, near-homophones, frequent misspellings, and commonly misused word pairs, each with quick, clear definitions. Born from a veteran editor's campaign against the errors that slip past software, it has become the desk reference that writing professionals reach for daily.

Now in its expanded 4th edition (152 pages), it serves as both an at-a-glance lookup tool and — as Midwest Book Review puts it — "a word nerd's browsing delight."

Perfect for: writers and authors, editors and proofreaders, students from high school through college, teachers, ESL learners, journalists, and business professionals.

"The handiest quick reference on the subject... I can't imagine anyone anywhere in the world who would not welcome this." — David Madden, Pulitzer Prize nominee

Add Reed's Homophones to your reference shelf — right between your dictionary and your thesaurus.

A. D. Reed is a writer and editor who operates the editorial service My Own Editor (www.myowneditor.com) and owns the North Carolina-based publishing imprint Pisgah Press LLC (www.pisgahpress.com). A lover of languages since childhood, he grew up with a multilingual, Canadian-born Russian émigrée mother who spoke English with a flat Cleveland, Ohio, accent and Russian like a lifelong Muscovite; a father from a south Georgia farm family who spoke carefully and precisely (like many a self-conscious, self-made man) though with a noticeable drawl; an elder sister who became an acclaimed editor in Canada and the Cayman Islands, and an older brother who, along with writing poetry, nits and picks with the best of them. He was surrounded by extended family and friends who spoke southern, Appalachian, British, Anglo-German, Greek-American, deep country, and transplanted-New-Yorker dialects, among many others-all of which he became familiar with, some of which, fluent in. He studied French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Russian as a high school and college student, but his first love remains the elegant, flexible, surprising, often incomprehensible, sometimes ridiculous, always delightful mélange of tongues that has gradually evolved into the modern American English language.