More soundalikes

Your spell checker might miss these and allow through the wrong word or autocorrect to make nonsense of your carefully crafted sentence.

heard; herd (past tense of verb to hear, group of animals or verb meaning to round up)
hoard; horde (verb meaning to collect and stache away or hide in a cupboard or concealed place large numbers of objects such as food in times or shortage, group of people or animals often unruly or completely out of control approaching a place or victim such as in a riot).

Angela Lansbury B A Honours, author and English teacher.
(My previous jobs include being a sub-editor on two major magazines for IPC and working on encyclopaedias. I also got 100 per cent in the spelling entry test for a Speedwriting course, and was told that only about 5 people a year achieve this record.)

Hypo and Hyper

hypo and hyper - for years I was puzzled. All became clear when I read a health article on diabetes. Two terms were used constantly. I had to sort out which was which.

HYPO - ZERO - LOW - O
Hypoglycaemia - too little glucose, sugar, energy.

HYPER - EXTRA - E
Herperactive - extra active - children running around in a classroom when teacher wants them to sit still and be quiet.
Hyperglaecemia - extra glucose or sugar in your system, 'eventually cause health problems such as damage to your eyes or kidneys'.

Control levels of sugar by what you take in (diet) and what you use up (exercise) or by doctor or nurse monitoring you and giving you tablets to regulate or other advice and remedies.

www.diabetesmatters.co.uk