Morning all,
Bella Scribner here with this week’s Homonym Hop Toad. What’s that? You may well ask. A homonym Hop Toad is a word that sounds like another word, is spelled differently and means something totally different. If you use a misplaced homonym, it becomes a hop toad, Green, with yellow warts, and makes your reader laugh.
Today’s hop toads are the Four Rights. You might think that there are only two but there are four. Let me introduce you.
RITE 1: spelled r i t e is a ceremony, usually religious in nature like a wedding or a confirmation or an initiation to a club. I attended the funeral rites for the prime minister. Confirmation in the Christian Church is a rite of passage.
RIGHT 2: spelled r i g h t is the most familiar of these toad speacies. This right is the opposite of wrong and the opposite of left. I’m going the right way this time. Turn to your right to find the auditorium. You are right, you have the correct information.
WRIGHT 3: spelled w r i g h t is a shy beast and usually isn’t seen, but when he makes an appearance, your documents take on an educated, professional flavor. A wright is a craftsman. Someone who makes wheels for wagons is a wheelwright. William Shakespeare was a playwright.
WRITE 4: spelled w r i t e is your old friend, the word you’ve been using to indicate that you’ve put letters onto paper or onto a computer screen. I’m writing this blog. I write this blog every week. She writes to her brother everynight.
Now that you’ve been introduced to these fourtoads, you will be able to tell the difference between them and use the right one in the right place, and you know what? If you do that, the toad changes magically into a pearl to grace your written words.
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