Homonyms

Here are some important ones:
accept (receive)/except (leave out)
advice (recommendation)/advise (recommend)
affect (influence)/effect (result)
allude (suggest)/elude (escape, avoid)
allusion (indirect reference)/illusion (something not there)
born (given birth to)/borne (carried)
cite (mention)/site (place)/sight (vision)
cursor (computer marker)/curser (a person who swears)
dessert (food)/desert (abandon/hot place)
elicit (to draw out)/illicit (illegal)
eminent (noteworthy)/imminent (impending)
forth (forward)/fourth (after third)
forward (to the front)/foreword (the preface to a book)
gorilla (an ape)/guerrilla (a fighter)
heard (through an ear)/herd (cattle)
its (possession)/it's (it is)
lose (misplace)/loose (not fastened)
miner (of gold)/minor (a young person)
principle (rule)/principal (main person)
stationary (not moving)/stationery (what you write on)
than (comparison)/then (time)
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