You are such a homophone

Here are nine sound-alike word pairs that are confused and misused, according to cracked.com.

As an English-language nerd, can I say that #9 on the list--mantel vs. mantle--was the only one I paused on to cipher the differences? I knew quickly the distinctions between the rest of the homophones.

I didn't choose the grammar life. The grammar life chose me.