Home ➢ Author Resources ➢ Word Confusion ➢ Rose versus Rows She picked a rows, sniffed it, and proclaimed it good. Well, not at the movie theater I go to. I pick some rows and there’s always something wrong with them. Sticky floors, busted seat arms, you name it. I do all right when I go pick strawberries and tomatoes where there are rows of all those lovely edibles. They smell good, too. For the fragrance of a rose though, I’d rather pick a rose. What’s that you say? You meant to say she picked a rose, rose with it in her delicate hands, and went through three rows of people to give it to me? Well why didn’t you say so! And ’cause I just “know” how much you love this, it is another pair of heterographs (a subset of homophone). Word Confusions . . . . . . started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. It evolved into a sharing of information with y’all. I’m hoping you’ll share with us words that have been […]