Sentence examples for a homophone error from inspiring English sources

That is a homophone error.

Wednesday's obituary of the actor and writer Colin Welland threw up a homophone error that you don't often see, when it referred to "A tender story of boy orphaned by IRA attacks seeking piece in the countryside of Donegal".

A very familiar homophone error cropped up in a piece about David Bowie on Tuesday: "Following news of his death, critics poured over the lyrics from his swansong album … Blackstar".

Correction: In quoting Galleycat, we originally repeated their homophone error ("cease" for "seize").

Not quite a homophone; we meant "sediment," and fixed it eventually.

Another song, "Quand c'est" translates to "when is it," which is a homophone for "cancer".

"The Chinese word for magpie is a homophone for the word for happiness," Mr. Keverne said.

A homophone is a word pronounced the same but different in meaning from another, regardless of whether the spelling is the same: Heir and air are homophones".

And in Chinese, the number eight is a homophone for the word for getting rich.

The Chinese word for "nine" is a homophone for the word "longevity".

· This article was amended on Thursday November 13 2008 to correct a homophone.