Too, two, and to
Rise to the top 3% as a developer or hire one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
--------------------------------------------------
Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Thinking It Over
--
Chapters
00:00 Too, Two, And To
00:20 Accepted Answer Score 10
00:42 Answer 2 Score 6
01:08 Thank you
--
Full question
https://english.stackexchange.com/questi...
--
Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...
--
Tags
#orthography
#avk47
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 10
If I wrote "there are three ways to spell to", that would be wrong because there is only one way to spell to. Likewise, there is only one way to spell too and perhaps two ways to spell two (the other being 2).
So, the only way to write that sentence correctly would be to include all three, or write the transcription, [tu].
ANSWER 2
Score 6
To flesh out Kosmonaut's answer a little bit, it doesn't make sense to include all three spellings and say that there are three ways to spell those three spellings. Alternative ways to express what you mean include
The word "to" has two homophones: "two" and "too".
and
There are three words that sound like "to".
(If you have an agreed-upon pronunciation notation, like IPA, you could use that. Presumably that is what Kosmonaut's [tu] is.)