483 GG Sort, Kind, or Type? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
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🗓️ 24 September 2015
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Grammar girls here. This week I have a quick and dirty tip about the words sort, kind, |
| 0:10.8 | and type. And a tidbit about the difference between homophones and homographs. And now |
| 0:17.4 | on to sort, kind, and type. When you're talking about categories of things, you can use the |
| 0:23.8 | words sort, kind, and type interchangeably. Squiggly doesn't like this sort of vacation. |
| 0:31.2 | Squiggly doesn't like this kind of vacation. And squiggly doesn't like this type of vacation. |
| 0:37.1 | They all mean the same thing. I was curious which phrase is more common, so I searched Google |
| 0:42.8 | Books in both American and British English. Kind of is the most popular. Sort of comes next, |
| 0:50.0 | and type of is the least popular. And I tried a few different phrases to make sure I wasn't |
| 0:55.4 | muddying up the results with sentences that use kind of and sort of as qualifiers, such as I |
| 1:01.6 | kind of like vacations. And the results were consistent, kind of still one. I'll include the |
| 1:08.1 | chart on the transcript of this article at quickandirtytips.com so you can see it for yourself. |
| 1:13.4 | Finally, another common error when using these words is forgetting to make them plural when they |
| 1:18.4 | follow the word these. It's art bark likes these kinds of vacations, these sorts of vacations, |
| 1:28.0 | and these types of vacations, they're plural. And that was your quick and dirty tip. Sort, |
| 1:34.7 | kind, and type are interchangeable. Next, I have a tidbit about homophones and other such words. |
| 1:42.2 | I've gotten more than one question about them since school started, and Neil Whitman was kind |
| 1:46.9 | enough to write this next piece. Have you ever had trouble remembering the difference between |
| 1:52.8 | homophones and homonyms? I have, and as if that's not confusing enough, someone will bring up |
| 2:00.2 | homographs. I'm going to offer a simplified definition that will make sense to you if you'll just |
| 2:06.1 | agree with me on one point. That sums are a kind of finger. You agree, right? Good. Some etymology |
| 2:15.5 | will help. The root homo, you may already realize, means same. It's the same Greek root that we find in |
| 2:22.7 | homogeneous and homosexual, but not homosapians, by the way. That comes from a Latin root meaning human. |
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