OT: Homophones - Discrete and Discreet.

[Kibitzer]

A BY poster recently mentioned a player's "discrete tattoo." The correct modifier is, in this instance, discreet, meaning "modest."

These two words are homophones, words that sound alike but have different meanings (e.g., to-too-two; capitol-capital; their-there-they're).

Discrete means "separate" or "apart" (like the two e's in discrete). Discreet means "reserved" or "modest."

These two homophones are not homonyms. That's the term for words that are spelled the same but have different meanings (like fair, scale, suit, etc.).

Go Huskies vs. LSU!

 

[bags27]

What you right is completely wright, Kibitzer. You are a great playwrite !

 

[Zorro]

Well, even a stopped clock is rite twice a day!

 

[Zorro]

And an anthropological researcher often writes of rites, right?

 

[JordyG]

Man, so many. Straight/strait, fowl/foul, fare/fair, plait/plate, pail/pale, lay/lei, tale/tail, bus/buss, main/mane, break/brake, cant/can't, fole/foal, team/teem, seem/seam. Enough.

 

[HoopsFan21]

Hopefully The Gabulous One can avoid the early fowls tomorrow.

 

[Monte]

Man, so many. Straight/strait, fowl/foul, fare/fair, plait/plate, pail/pale, lay/lei, tale/tail, bus/buss, main/mane, break/brake, cant/can't, fole/foal, team/teem, seem/seam. Enough.

I thought this sight was about bawl players!

 

[JordyG]

I thought this sight was about bawl players!

If you where in the Baylor locker room it was. By the way, site/sight/cite.

 

[Kibitzer]

Man, so many. Straight/strait, fowl/foul, fare/fair, plait/plate, pail/pale, lay/lei, tale/tail, bus/buss, main/mane, break/brake, cant/can't, fole/foal, team/teem, seem/seam. Enough.

All homophones.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Hopefully The Gabulous One can avoid the early fowls tomorrow.

Maybe she'll play like Sylvia Fowles.