Bruce Worden - Homophones Visualized

This book is dedicated to Harrison, my sun. First published in the United States of America in 2019 by Chronicle Books LLC. Copyright 2019 by Bruce Worden. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-4521-8015-1 (epub, mobi) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.

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So in 2011 I decided Id rather see it all laid out in funny pictures and started a weekly blog called Homophones, Weakly. As it turns out, this approach resonated with a lot of people, from students to teachers, poets to graphic designers. This book represents a selection of my favorite drawings from the blogwith a few changes here and there to make them even better. I recognize there are many diverse factors that determine how each person pronounces the same word. And language is not an exact science anyway. So its important to me that this book not be taken as a call-to-arms for the grammar warriors among us, or as some comprehensive curriculum to study and memorize.

Instead, this is simply meant to be a fun, visual guide to a cohort of confusing words, and I hope you enjoy it. The following pages speak for themselves better than I can anyway, so lets end this foreword and move forward.