Jeans or jeans means the popular denim pants--
You have a hole in your jeans.
These jeans don't fit right.
Jeans is also used to describe something else made of denim--
Do you have a jeans jacket in my size?
Jean may be singular ( only one )--
Can you make this in blue jean fabric?
Genes or genes ( rhymes with jeans ) means the cells containing the code for copying an organism or part of an organism, or the cells controlling hereditary traits--
Red hair must be in the family genes.
Their children inherited genes for blue eyes from both parents.
Gene is also singular ( only one )--
The child inherits one gene from each parent.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"They wear blue jeans so often that I wonder if it's in their genes."
Note--"gean" ( rhymes with gene or jean ) is a kind of sweet cherry--
A heart cherry is also called a gean.
Two heart cherries might be called two geans.
Note # 2--"Jean" or "Jeanne" are feminine given names--
The girl next door is named Jean.
The possessive ( describes what belongs to ) of "Jean" is "Jean's" ( rhymes with jeans )--
Jean's sister called earlier.
"Jeannie" is a nickname for "Jean" or "Jeanne"--
"I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair..."
"Gene" is a masculine given name--
We used to watch Gene London on TV in the morning.
Not to be confused with "genie", a being with magical powers--
When he rubbed the old lamp, a genie appeared and offered to grant him three wishes.
Words that sound the same when we speak may actually be two different words--which matters when we write them down. Spellcheck cannot help with this--it will show each word and the writer has to choose--to disambiguate them, if you will. I intend to update this daily, with another set of words it is possible to confuse, beginning with the simplest and most important. Questions and comments are welcome.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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