Excess of access

[cimorene]

You often see excess and access on lists of homophones that are often confused, but I don't actually see those substitutions that often in reading fanfiction, which is where I typically see homophone confusions. The published novels of Cyril Hare, though, systematically use "access" for excess, which is quite bemusing because they're so old. I didn't think they'd already started getting rid of copy editors in 1950.