Many of you have been so kind as to point out my grammatical mistakes in my columns to LRC. These mistakes, I have noticed, tend to be homophonic in nature: "principal" instead of "principle," or "chic" rather than "sheik." Of course "sheik" does not make scents in the context in which I used it no matter how hard I might have tried to justify using an Arab tribal leader to describe my new diet plan. Obviously, I am not a writer by profession and sometimes get going a little two fast and take the first suggestion that MS Word throws … Continue reading Homophones