Homophones and Homographs: An American Dictionary, 4th ed. - Softcover

a serious work of exemplary scholarship that stands alone in the field...recommended"" - Booklist ""comprehensive, authoritative, and useful sourcebook"" - ARBA ""valuable resource...the annotated bibliography is more than seven excellent pages in length...useful"" - Library Journal ""a fascinating compendium of potential misunderstandings...a gold mine for students of English and for writers, journalists, and instructors...recommended"" - Choice ""the best roster of these phenoma"" - Wilson Library Bulletin ""a good choice for any library"" - Reference Quarterly ""a good sourcebook"" - C&RL News ""the interesting annotated bibliography is a useful, critical guide to a very wide range of relevant dictionaries and commentaries...essential"" - Reference Reviews.

This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.). As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the most modern spell-checkers and word processors fail-although rain, reign, and rein may be spelled correctly, the context in which these words may appropriately be used is not obvious to a computer.