Two weeks ago I published a post on the homophones nigh and nye. A nye is a flock or brood of pheasants, which leads me to this week’s sometimes confused words: peasant and pheasant. I presume this is often a spelling error rather than real confusion on the part of the writer (especially as peasant and pheasant are not homophones).
Peasant:
- a poor agricultural worker of low social status or class
- an ignorant, rude, uncouth, unsophisticated or uncultured person
Pheasant:
- a long-tailed game bird originally native to Asia
My tip: a peasant is a person.
Hannah McCall 
Glad to read to this because I’ve been making terrible off-colour jokes on this subject (to myself I hasten to add) for years.
Currently trying to work this into my fantasy novel project; folk are never too sure which one a villainous noble is referring to when he talks of hunting or meals.
It also makes for hilarious reading in any article when the ‘h’ is dropped.
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You’ve sold this fantasy novel to me – you have one guaranteed sale right here.
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Thanks!!- Now all I have to do is seamlessly fit this into the novel
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