Versus vs. Verse – This One Makes My Head Explode! Hearing someone say verse (words in poetry or song) when they mean versus (against) screws me into the ceiling… figuratively. (We’ll come to the use of figuratively in a later chapter.) When someone...
To vs. Too vs. Two To, too, and two are another set of homophones: words that sound the same but have different meanings. You can’t possibly screw them up when you’re speaking, but to many of us there are too many people who screw up the first two versions of the word...