[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Reminds me of the Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle:

A chiz is a swiz or a swindle as any fule kno

This is grabber who is head of the skool captane of everything and winner of the mrs joyful prize for rafia work. His pater is very rich and hav a super rolls (hem hem)

this is gillibrand on the high diving board...his pater is a general so he is not very brany

Not that there are any misused homophones in there, but they're funny nonetheless.

Come to think of it, when I was sixteen and studying for my 'A' levels, my English Literature teacher had to explain to the entire class the difference between "it's" and "its". Most of the essays that she'd just marked had mixed up the two, which was hardly surprising, since no-one had seen fit to tell us about it before. Another triumph for the Ministry of Edukashun.