Grimer Girl here, I'm in Yon Fugherty and this week I have a quick and dirty tip about

the difference between home in with an N and home in with an M and a meaty middle about

tricky apostrophes.

Let's start with homing pigeons and sharp knives.

When you get closer to finding a difficult truth or finding a hiding criminal, you home

in on them, just as a homing device allows you to find something.

Put an image in your mind of a homing pigeon, arriving home to a lovely enclosure on top

of a grand castle like the Windsor Castle or the Tower of London to remember that you

home in on something.

A castle would be a great home, as long as it had modern heating and plumbing, and wasn't

so big that you'd feel lonely.

When you don't want it to be so big that criminals could hide and then you'd have to

home in on them with your homing pigeons.

So maybe a small castle with a homing pigeon enclosure on the roof, just in case, would

make a good safe home.

Here's an example of homing in a sentence.

Art Vark quickly home to in on the weaknesses in Squiggly's alibi.

Next, home with an N means to sharpen and comes from an old English word that meant stone

or rock.

You hone a knife on a sharpening stone.

Think of it as a honing stone to remember that to hone means to sharpen.

It kind of rhymes in both words have an N. You don't hone in on anything except maybe

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