dictionary.com
Don't ya just love 'em? Ah, there's nothing like the English language to keep you on your toes(homophone).
My personal favorite bear/bare. Does this one confuse you? It does me.
I was writing an email and started to say bear with me. Then decided nope that didn't look right (there's another one) so I typed bare with me. No that didn't look right, so I plugged it into google. A good thing I did. If I'd left it bare with me, I would have basically been saying get naked with me. Hmm....wouldn't have been appropriate in this particular e mail.
The English language is sprinkled with them. I've listed a few below.
Brake/break
Eye/I
Fare/fair
For/four
Heir/air
Idol/idle
One/won
Piece/peace
Prey/pray
Right/write
site/sight
Sole/soul
Suite/sweet
Tail/tale
Toe/tow
Where/wear
added to the list by commenters:
read/read/reed
their/there
shudder/shutter
Which homophones give you grief?
8 comments:
Nice blog
I invite you on my new blog.
The perfect gift. http://trabajoartesano.blogspot.com
Read/read - same word for present tense and past tense.
English - weird arsed language...that's why I make up my own words every so often
English is such a confusing language.
effect/affect always confuses me
Yup, I have problems with that one too. The other one that gives me fits is set/sit.
One I see a LOT in books is shudder/shutter. I've yet to figure out how someone shutters with desire...
There/Their Haunted me in Jr High,
Good ones, ladies. I added them to the list.
Post a Comment