Reed's Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words

This is all my grandma ever wanted. Made a great Christmas present!

Good resource book. Everyone needs this book.

Most informative and comprehensive. As handy as a dictionary and helpful as a thesaurus.

Rather limited selection of English homophones with minimal definitions. Useful for English speakers but not those learning the language. The English spelling/pronunciation conundrum requires some guidance like the IPA characters.

This is a great little book. After reading through it I identified several more words that were not included and e-mailed them to the author. He responded that he will include them in future editions. Great if you love words.

Perfect for a poet.

Mr. Reed has given writers - especially those of us who are self-published - the greatest gift: not only is his updated volume a wonderful reference guide, but it keeps authors from being embarrassed, as the worst feeling is seeing a commonly misspelled word in print. Highly recommend!Gloria Squitiro, Author of May Cause Drowsiness and Blurred Vision: The Side Effects of Bravery

A.D. Reed is a godsend! For writers, both professional and casual, here at last is a book of homophones (aka homonyms) gathered with a flair for entertainment as well as education. Obviously Reed writes profusely - how else could he possibly have uncovered so many homophones? Every writer, no matter the level of sophistication, has on the desk a dictionary, a thesaurus, and encyclopedia and now a computer with Internet access, but until now there has not been a book devoted to a listing of homophones.From the cover allow me to quote the following for definition's sake: `A standard reference book for writers and editors containing hundreds of sound-alike words (homophones) and the most common pairs of misused, mispronounced, misspelled, and otherwise mistaken words in the English language. This volume will quickly become an essential companion for journalists, copy-editors, proofreaders, students of English as a second language or as their native tongue.' And there you have it - contents and definition wise. But that doesn't begin to expand the mind the way Reed proceeds through this now indispensible book.The manner in which he lists the words that sound the same but often have quite different meanings is clear and well paced. But in addition to informing us of homophones, he also discusses easily misused, confused or mistyped words as well as mispronounced words. Also included is an informative and entertaining discussion of neologisms (words that aren't quite words - yet), synonyms and `schizophrenic antonyms' and he tops the book off with some insights into his own pet peeves.It takes a fine writer to share both the literary knowledge as well as the humor behind such bloopers in language. Yes, we are all inundated with new social media lingo (OMG, lol, `Totally' etc) and doubtless those words will fall into the standard dictionary soon. But it is the sense of humor with which Reed approaches his topic that makes this book a valuable companion. Each of has a collection of words we misuse or mis-type consistently (mine is `form' instead of `from' among dozens of others) and it is a welcome discovery to find that someone cares about missteps. Grady Harp, April 13