Read Or Read?
Those two words are an odd pairing, aren't they? It's not as if they are words that sound the same but mean something completely different: heard and herd, or stayed and staid. Such pairings are called homophones, or homonyms, or homographs, explained Grammerly . Wait, what? But when you think of most other words, especially when it comes to describing our senses, there are separate words used to describe something in the present tense vs. something in the past tense: hear and heard, or see and saw, or feel and felt, or smell and smelled. But when you read something, you may find that you had already read it. Huh? Dang English language* (a good online "test" of this sort is the daily game from the NY Times, Connections ). But reading. I tend to do a lot of it and as many of you readers may know, my preference for reading is heavily slanted towards non-fiction. That said, I do try to pick up a book ...