Fandom Grammar

Welcome to another installment of Blast From the Past. This week we're going to look at a couple more sets of easily confused words: it's/its and your/you're. melayneseahawk first covered them back in 2008, and then chiroho tackled them in a 2011 BftP. So let's give both of these easily confused duos another glance with a little help from our friends over at Once Upon a Time, shall we?

( Blast from the past: it's/its and your/you're )

Welcome to this week's installment of Blast From the Past! This week, we've got a two-fer of commonly confused words for you: their/there/they're and to/too/two. Both were orignally covered in January 2008 by green_grrl, then both got individual focus in their own BftP: the former in November 2011 by chiroho and the latter in October 2011 by supercheesegirl. So let's see if we can get a brief refresher on these two homophone triads with a little help from our friends over at Witches of East End.


( Blast from the past: their/there/they're and to/too/two )

Today's Friday Funny combines one of my biggest pet peeves with one of my all time favorite comic strips.



This particular homophone issue has been handled previously in fandom_grammar by melayneseahawk in another Friday Funny and chiroho in a Blast From the Past about a year ago, as well as green_grrl's article from 2008.

I do want to point out that there are some countries where the use of "Nazi" would not be prudent, so usually said person would be called a "Grammar Fiend" or some other variation on that.

I don't know about any other grammarians, but this one is tied with your/you're and to/two/too for a grammar-related issue that can set my blood to boiling instantly when I see it. It's also one of my big reasons to advocate for a beta, because spellcheck doesn't always catch these issues. And don't get me started on that period that should actually be a comma, or the missing period at the end of the phrase.

So what do you do to make sure you don't confuse these homophones?