Homophones are two (or more) words that have different meanings and different spellings, but the same pronounciation. The cartoonist did a nice job of mentioning several three-way homophones!

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Treat false plurals like the singulars they are. These words just happen to end in ‘s.’ Here’s a guy (Mike Peterson) who probably actually knows better getting it wrong. “Economics” is a singular. It gets a singular verb.

Unfortunately, we’ve got a significant number of people here who are just as ignorant about how economics work. (should be “how economics works.”)

Here’s the comic Mike Peterson used to illustrate his point, which he explains in detail in the paragraph after the comic. I do grammar, not politics, so click the link if you’re interested.

Okay, I don’t do politics, so ignore that. Here’s the headline:

Harris’ or Harris’s? Apostrophe row divides grammar nerds

And here’s a link to the article:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/14/kamala-harris-or-harriss-apostrophe-row-grammar-nerds

Oh—I belong to the camp that doesn’t add the extra ‘s’ if the word already ends with an ‘s.’

Want a picture? Here it is:

First the comic. Last panel:

Nauseous means “causing nausea.” She means nauseated, which means “feel like throwing up.”

—But not uncommon.

At least we tech writers would say “written in italic.” No “s” because it’s really “in an italic font.”