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What happens when a frog's car breaks down? It gets toad away. If you're like me and laughed at this joke more than you probably should have, you know that words are fun. Bruce Worden, the man behind a blog called Homophones, Weakly, also shares this opinion. Like you might have already guessed, he's into homophones (each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling). In fact, Bruce likes them so much, he's even visualizing them!
Poking fun at the English language, Bruce uses minimalistic illustrations to prove that we just have to listen. For without context we couldn't know if someone is inviting us to a sail or sale. Scroll down for the images and upvote your favorites! Also, be sure to check out our list of the 20+ 'Same' Things That Most People Don’t Know Are Actually Different, too!
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Sue Rogers 7 years ago
I have read that this is why the English language is so difficult to learn!
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Jeremie Guerra 7 years ago
That Reminds me this funny video about an Italian that went to Malta :) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFQFvSPhQ8
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Renard Bansale 7 years ago
From Tully (2018—dir. Jason Reitman; wr. Diablo Cody): ..... Tully (Mackenzie Davis): "I'm here to help you with everything. You can't fix the part without treating the whole." Marlo (Charlize Theron): "Yeah, well...No one's treated my hole in a really long time."
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Hamlets twin 7 years ago
It works but I could be going for an Australian accent...
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Mylah Rose 7 years ago
No one calls them beets in the UK - we call them beetroot - because it is the root of the beet - there's your free fact of the day!
karen snyder 7 years ago
TeHe, "He got the beat, he got the beet, he got the beat[ing] Yeah!" (Sincere apologies to The The Go-Go's)
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Nancy Stehle 5 years ago
they are not homophones. ..different vowel sounds e, o, short vowel sound
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A Ghost 7 years ago
I would use them interchangeably until... too far along in my education.
Load More Replies... Caroline Murphy 7 years ago
Which Witch is Which? Was one of my favourite original Scooby Doo episodes
BusLady 7 years ago
@Ginge: Now you just confused the hell out of me! ;-)
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BusLady 7 years ago
Must be like those little towels from the dollar store. Put them in water and they get bigger.
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Michael Ernst 7 years ago
That's why the auto-pilot cars keeps crashing.. Stupid autocorrect 😀
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Daria B 7 years ago
But I've witnessed people whine too much when they had too much wine. ♥
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Brenda Tajik 7 years ago
The tear looks like sweat because it's towards the back of the "head". Perhaps using an eye cutout placed closer to the mouth would be clearer. The "wine" is being tossed back like a shooter! What's that about?
Elegant Vandalism 7 years ago
What about principle and princiPAL??? The principal of the school is always your PAL....
Viatrix Lee 7 years ago
My third grade teacher whenever the class complained: "Would you like some cheese with that whine?"
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Margarida Calpena 5 years ago
I am not a native English speaker. At a village party, I was told children would have a pea shooting competition. I then asked, Surely, it's only for boys, right?
Claire Armstrong 7 years ago
So that's what guys do when they go to the toilet? Is that why I always find PEE on the toilet seat and all over my pedestal mat? And yes that includes when it's straight out the wash, WITCH really PEE'S me off lol! (FYI - no kids in the household 🤔
Happiness is Hippo 7 years ago
Can anyone tell me the origin of Ps and Qs, please?
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Harry Potton 7 years ago
not gonna lie. Had to write up about heroin for homework back in school. A lot of hours wasted talking about female heroes.
Kay Bee 7 years ago
No. Just no. In English heroine does not rhyme with wine.
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DE Ray 7 years ago
For most accents in English, it is indistinguishable because that is one of the words where the 'n' can become naturally drawn out in any case.
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Meowton Mewsk 7 years ago
Technically it turned light since Lucifer is the Bringer of Light.
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Fifine Brightman 7 years ago
In the second one the devil is giving the middle finger. Hahaha.....
Monique Angel 7 years ago
Lucifer has fallen from Grace, so he is basically a failure but he is also successful each time people choose dark thoughts, dark moods, sad words, bad manners, bad language,
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The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
My puppy has some wicked claws on her paws! Have to pause to get some gauze cause my own paws are getting sore(s) and while I do that my puppy snores. I am sorry. I'll stop now.
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Vicky Zar 7 years ago
And its pronounces differently. So it dosen't count.
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Sandra Josefine Langvatznes 7 years ago
I learned yesterday that stairs will also slap you..
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Jemma Ward 7 years ago
Not for Scottish folk, the accent means we pronounce them differently :)
The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Pronounce them both the same in the South, how boring of us!
Load More Replies... criminalgirl 7 years ago
Not spoken in the same way again! Tide is a very short word, Tied is much longer and distinct.
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Nikol Böhmová 7 years ago
I once ask about Knight and wanted to know how to pronounce it and I was really surprised it's same :D
Diamond Hurricane 7 years ago
NO GOD PLEASE NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Happiness is Hippo 7 years ago
Dice is the plural of die. One die, two dice : )
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Alexander MacDonald 2 months ago
Raise: the city is being built Rays: aliens are attacking the city Raze: the city is destroyed
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Zanthe 7 years ago
If I'm really hungry and eat serial cereals, am I a cereal killer or a serial killer?
Memeiskey 7 years ago
Exactly, he has three bowls, three of something is serial.
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Julie Dungworth 5 years ago
Two S’s in dessert because you would want to eat two and one S in desert because you would only want to walk across it once!
David Martin 7 years ago
When it’s a dessert, there’s Strawberry Shortcake (2 Ss)...when it’s a desert, there’s just Sand (1 S)
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Sandra Josefine Langvatznes 7 years ago
Mama Mia? That's probably the closest
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P Piorecki 7 years ago
Haven't gotten all the way through this entire posting but I'm just waiting for Turkey(bird)/Turkey (country)
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Ari 7 years ago
The h is silent in heir so it wouldn't sound the same as hair or hare.
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Happiness is Hippo 7 years ago
In the UK too, I'm not sure who does pronounce them the same way...??
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Mylah Rose 7 years ago
I can kinda see that in America they sound the same. They do indeed sound completely different in the UK. They sound as they are written - the vowels make a very different sound.
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Mad Haberdasheress 7 years ago
Nah, in the first instance, the junk is in the trunk, lol. ;-)
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Jeff Christensen 6 years ago
A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" Said the flea, "Let us fly!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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it's ava the bus girl 7 years ago
The couple make a smile: their heads are the eyes, their hands are the mouth, and the heart is the nose!
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
Depends where you live. I say tomato ketchup, but not tomato catch up.
mbergen 7 years ago
No idea why the down votes. I always thought they were pronounced differently, at least here they tend to be.
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Sandra Josefine Langvatznes 7 years ago
Mom used to say "kom an ketchup" How norse are you, btw? :p
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Hamlets twin 7 years ago
I wonder how many people under say 25, know what the second is a picture of?
richard crannell 7 years ago
Need a 'cord of wood' ? and there's a million type of cords besides a phone cord, like extension.
Ester De Pretto 5 years ago
A musical chord played on any instrument is still a chord, unless you are referring to the cable that goes into the jack of an electric guitar, which could be a type of cord.
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Tony Moon 7 years ago
Think of it this way. If you are doing something, its just you, one "o" (to), (I am going to the market). If you are also doing something, its two of you, two "o" (too), (We are too!).
Load More Replies... criminalgirl 7 years ago
What a crappy example again!! Going To hang myself. Too many choices. Two hours To go.
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Darren Shalla 7 years ago
Honesty Olishia is referring to "Male", they wear kilts so the picture could be either or.
Load More Replies... Donna O 7 years ago
It's interchangeable, I've heard it referred to as either. Also "Royal Mail".
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mbergen 7 years ago
I had to google that one, never heard it before. Man I'm getting old.
Load More Replies... richard crannell 7 years ago
I guess no one ever hears a clock 'tick' anymore, or a bad engine lifter.
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SnowyLynx 7 years ago
Joke made by all Boy Scouts guidebooks ever. Or should i say Scouts BSA. 😡😡😡🤬
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The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
I do read books (pronounced like reed) and I have read books (pronounced like red)
alwright 7 years ago
Wow that's confusing. If I said "I read books and I read books" there's no way to tell what I'm saying O.o
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Mylah Rose 7 years ago
Aaaahh it's annoying me that so many of these don't apply when speaking with an English accent - makes me think there should be a separate list - but also makes me think that things must be way more confusing in America if literally everything sounds the same!! :D
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Jeff Christensen 6 years ago
Assuming it is in treble clef, yes. It is a C minor triad: if you look really hard the middle note has a flat sign.
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Mark McKean 7 years ago
In standard English, the 'o's are pronounced the same. It's actually the 's' that's different. In 'loose', it's a hissing 's'; in 'lose', it's a 'z' sound. The 'o' sounds may feel different, but that's an artifact of the following consonant. The fact that the spelling difference is in the vowel but the sound difference is in the consonant is what makes this pair so commonly confused in writing. This kind of difference is a major cause of English words that are pronounced distinctly differently getting mixed up with each other.
Leone Abbacchio 5 years ago
This here, is WRONG. 'loose' is pronounced like 'luus' (sounds short) 'lose' is pronounced like 'luwuz' (sounds long) Like you wouldn't say: "My shoe is lose." ??????
Red Pantone 7 years ago
Plot twist: She's a demon version of Cinderella who kills people for their feet (Seems gore but this is the least creepy thing they have fought)
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Patricia Ross 7 years ago
Me too, exactly the same. I guess it depends on where you come from.
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Nawar Alseelawi 7 years ago
It is really funny when i hear American say "Ay Rak" which is it not the actual name, I is pronounced "E rak". By the way, we dont refer to our country as a female noun but as a male noun, I dont know why but that what we always do. Another info, Iraq took "his" name from "Uruk".
Mylah Rose 7 years ago
Damn it all of these sound different! You also missed the "boobs" rack.
richard crannell 7 years ago
Cars have a rack, used for steering, 'rack and pinion'. How does Rock sound like Rack ??
criminalgirl 7 years ago
You MUST be American....only Americans. Oh and by the way Iraq - the I is pronounced like the I in "it" That is how the Iraqis and the rest of the World pronounce it.
mbergen 7 years ago
Reminds me of a comedian from Iran. He would correct people by saying 'Iran is where I'm from, I ran is what I did'
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The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Our can also be pronounced like Are. The Lords prayer was taught to me as Our Father pronounced as Are Father. I had a northern friend who didn't believe me so we listened to it on howjsay.com and it gave both versions of the pronunciation.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
"He misses the misses that were misses to be his Mrs." -or- "He felt melancholy for the young ladies that declined his marriage proposals." I know, I'm pushing it.
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Tony Moon 7 years ago
An upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 7 years ago
I admit, I had to look up Stele. Now I know something I didn't before! YAY!
Keith Stevens 7 years ago
def 4. Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants. ... So if someone uses a knife to cut off someone else's sunflower, they'd steal by using steel to cut the stele, yet still later meet steal to become stele.
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richard crannell 7 years ago
That symbol is international for "NO", as in 'no swimming', or 'no smoking' , ect. . I don't think there is an international figure for 'entry' , so people use that symbol with 'do not enter', instead.
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richard crannell 7 years ago
People who pronounce these the same are just lazy speakers, as the 'w' is left out because it's to much trouble.
The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Again, I suspect regional variations! I say flour the same way as flower.
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Tarek Ali Habib 6 years ago
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L.j. Bus 7 years ago
I get it now, forgot about the form of measurement lol
Load More Replies... L.j. Bus 7 years ago
Oh, I forgot about that, that.s why the ruker is there of course (we don’t ever use that measuring type lol)
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Mylah Rose 7 years ago
Finally one that works in English! I believe route is pronounced "rawt" in America
fraz 7 years ago
In Australia the word root has an entirely different meaning, and I can't say I'd condone the illustration of rooting, with cheer leaders.
Blue Banana 7 years ago
Spoilsport. I don't thing rooting with a map would work.
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David Ireland 7 years ago
It's just Lighting for the light and Lightning for the bolt from the sky
Virginia Llorca 7 years ago
When the sun comes up, the sky lightens. It becomes more light. As it rises, there is more lightening of the sky.
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Caleb Paulson 7 years ago
Y'all should see Mike and Alex towing with their toes on Ten Feet Tall.
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Victor Skimmeland 7 years ago
You’ve got them in Colombia already. Gorillas are doing the guerilla’s work in the city.
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Kaisu Rei 7 years ago
These aren't even pronounced the same? At least if you know anything about Spanish pronunciation
Dianabanana 7 years ago
Going down that road, it should also be spelt guerrilla!
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Alexander MacDonald 2 months ago
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Meowton Mewsk 7 years ago
I think they pronounce it differently from the above examples.
Load More Replies... Blue Banana 7 years ago
Chileans I have known pronounce it Chile. The first one should have a picture of the country Chile. The pepper known as a chilli is referred to as a 'chili' or 'chilli' depending where you come from.
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Maxine Brew 7 years ago
Eminent, person of importance. Immanent thoughts, not good ones. Imminent, something close at hand. Emanate, to give off a force.
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János Töltelék 7 years ago
Actually, Atlas was holding the sky, not the globe...
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Mieke Sorée 7 years ago
Is that an American thing? That the week starts on sunday? Here in the Netherlands, monday is our first weekday.
Blue Banana 7 years ago
Jews and Muslims have Saturday as the last day of the week or Sabbath for the religious. The rest of us have Sunday as the last day of the week. And for the Christians that want to argue, remember your Bible, six days shalt thou labour and on the seventh thou shall rest and give thanks. Which day do you go to church? Saturday or Sunday?
Load More Replies... Mieke Sorée 7 years ago
I mean on a calendar. We start with 5 days workweek and end with two days off.
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M O'Connell 7 years ago
Wye: A balanced means of connecting 3-phase alternating current whereby each load is connected line-neutral.
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Dawn Calder-Murphy 7 years ago
Actually it means that they go well together / they enhance each other. This could be due to similarities, or differences.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Clever, peer includes both "gaze" and "colleague" (in this case I would say "leer").
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Alexander MacDonald 2 months ago
Breath of the Wild, AND Tears of the Kingdom. That's two Links!
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Kaisu Rei 7 years ago
The one behind is doing the thing where they cover the other's eyes and going "guess who?"
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Robert Morson 7 years ago
Hmm. This is the first one that I frequently use wrong. I thought both were spelled with an A.
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Blue Banana 7 years ago
Poll also means to clip or shear as in polling sheep or polling trees.
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marie elle 7 years ago
What your'e eating in a mussle is the muscle, isn't it? (She sells sea shells...)
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Erin Sheppard 7 years ago
Hay's for horses, grass is cheaper, dirt is free.. Buy a farm you get all three!!!
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Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal 7 years ago
I read the first one as Lee because I am used to serifs in this context
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Robert Morson 7 years ago
The skull is from the "Alas, poor Yorick" speech, not the "To be or not to be" speech.
Michael Gray 7 years ago
Abbreviation of a proper name, Beatrice becomes Bea (also pronounced "bee").
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Elfmonkey 7 years ago
How exactly not? For I have never heard them said differently, personally. IPA: /wɔːn/ for both.
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
So not a silent T at the end of Continents, or not a silent C in Continence either.
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Mylah Rose 7 years ago
Apart from the fact that petal is pronounced "PET"al , and peddle is pronounced "PEDD"le
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Sue Werner 7 years ago
Page 13/27 and the viewers are fewer. I'm upvoting the ones with 3 or more words/meanings.
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JD Nicolaaa 7 years ago
Oooooohhhhh! I thought it was saying ten to, o'clock, ten past! ^^' thanks for explaining!!
Virginia Llorca 7 years ago
I always get this wrong. It is seven minutes passed three. 7 minutes to 3 is in the past.
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Patricia Ross 7 years ago
Payer has a very different sound to me but this, again, may be a dialect thing.
Load More Replies... The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
To pare means to trim something - to cut away the skin on a fruit for example. You would use a paring knife. Or you can pare down a company - make cutbacks. Hope that helps.
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Kristiana Kincaid 7 years ago
Mince doesn't have to be meat - Mince pies are made of "mincemeat" which is not in fact meat.
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Jackie Gilpin 7 years ago
It’s just a shortening of minced meat or finely cut meat. Where I live we call it chop meat, not mince (which I’ve only heard in the UK)
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Kristiana Kincaid 7 years ago
This is one that many self-published authors seem to get wrong. Continually.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 7 years ago
Discreet - secretive, not visible to everyone. Discrete - separate, apart
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Board/Bored (see #8 (committee/unamused) & #130 (plank/drilled)) -- Separated as they are the definitions are clear, but to be clever I can see how all four could be incorporated into two images with two definitions each. (yes, everybody is a critic.)
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David Ireland 7 years ago
I didn't know "Caret" was the name of that (I didn't know it had a name), and I thought diamonds and gold were the same
Marianne McKay 7 years ago
Does your gold ring say it’s 14k.? It refers to the purity of the gold not the weight of the stone in it.
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Bron 7 years ago
Left handed tick? (correct answer mark). Or is it my country that does that the opposite (mirror) way??
David Ireland 7 years ago
Nah, that's a left handed tick (check mark for USA)
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Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal 7 years ago
In my head vial has two syllables while vial has one, but with my twangy accent they sound alike
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Virginia Llorca 7 years ago
The tray is populous (containing many people) because of a large populace (population)
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Elfmonkey 7 years ago
Ordinance = an order from authorities Ordnance = weaponry, military munitions, etc.
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Sandra Gushulak 7 years ago
Just like it's friend "moan" (#106 above), Groan looks like it's throwing up.
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David Ireland 7 years ago
Born as in given birth. Borne as in carried or transported by the thing specified. "waterborne bacteria"
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Bravo. In re Led Zeppelin IV, the symbol for drummer John Bonham is as shown above.
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Victor Skimmeland 7 years ago
Actually quite connected. Too much of the left stuff gets you the right stuff.
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Jackie Gilpin 7 years ago
The word Tarot is French and you don’t pronounce the final “t”
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
Since Coupe is a french word, it's out of place as you should be pronouncing the E at the end as like = "Coupay" So nothing like Coop at all.
DE Ray 7 years ago
But like many words of French origin which English has stolen, we pronounce it however we want.
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Sharon Andersen 7 years ago
Nope, that's coup, with no e. And pronounced like "coo," the p is silent.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Geeks enunciate the G in the acronym "GNU"; for the animal it should be silent but far too many people pronounce the G, mostly to avoid confusion. Who knew? It's not new. :-/
Load More Replies... DE Ray 7 years ago
Don't know Gary, but the G is often silent in gnu. Pronounce it or not, both are acceptable.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Memory: capitAl something with [greater] vAlue (capital letter, capital city); capitOl buildings might have a dOme.
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The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Who pronounces Aunt like ant? Aunt is similar to aren't. Maybe it's a regional thing again...
Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal 7 years ago
In my neck of the woods people think you're uppity if you say aw/ah-nt instead of ant
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Amanda Raynes 7 years ago
First the egg white and proteins within. The second is the characteristic of being soluable in water and coaguable in heat such as egg whites
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
So does anyone see the "th" in the middle of Clothes?? They are not silent.
Michael Gray 7 years ago
Technically, the "th" should be pronounced, but not necessarily emphasized -- not "clo-thez" but not "cloths" either. Hundreds of years of use and the word's "th" and "s" have slurred together. I just said "Close the clothes hamper" and noticed I said both words identically. Hmm.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
In addition to the allowance for a container's weight while measuring (above), Tare is also a vetch... aaaand going down that rabbit hole, a vetch is a plant.
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Michael Gray 7 years ago
Arguable. I pronounce the first as written with emphasis on both syllables: mag-nate.
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Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal 7 years ago
I feel like you have to already know the definitions and differences of some of those words to understand the illustration
Bobbi Newell 7 years ago
A simpler illustration of "tortuous' (on the left) would have been a winding road
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Blue Banana 7 years ago
American pronunciation only. Hostile has a long 'i' sound as in style. Same thing for missile.
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David Ireland 7 years ago
Completely different, it ends in "th" which is pronounced
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Marietta Tyks 7 years ago
Confused here. Hymn pronounced like hem, like in a skirt or pants, not him.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 7 years ago
Holy c**p. I've been pronouncing the musical instrument wrong all my life.
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ALIYAH ALLEN 7 years ago
for stalking he should had someone in a car driving by someones house or something.
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David Ireland 7 years ago
One has a "t" on the end of it which makes it sound different if you pronounced them properly
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Blue Banana 7 years ago
I thought that this one was clutching at straws a bit.
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David Ireland 7 years ago
Ok, two completely different words here. The guy who did this is either hard of hearing or has a speech impediment
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Blue Banana 7 years ago
On some American films, I have heard the word halve pronounced 'haff', but that still doesn't sound like 'have'.
V Michael Lazar 7 years ago
Americans often use half instead of halve. But when halve is used, we drop the 'l'.
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Kristiana Kincaid 7 years ago
Well, that's a 'graham' cracker which I never see outside of the US.
Load More Replies... Blue Banana 7 years ago
This must be another American pronunciation thing. Sort of explains why I have the English sub-titles on when watching an American film. So I can understand the damned accents!
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David Ireland 7 years ago
I think he's taking the p**s. These two words are so different, wow!
V Michael Lazar 7 years ago
The words represented here are commonly misspelled in the US due to homophonic tendencies. If they don't sound similar in your neck of the woods, they do sound similar elsewhere, especially if one hasn't ever seen the spelling.
Load More Replies... Blue Banana 7 years ago
You have got to be kidding. Is 'Gnawed' supposed to sound like 'Nod' or 'Nod' like 'Nored' as in 'snored'?
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Elfmonkey 7 years ago
See, this is what annoys me about the English language. Co-low-nel, not kernel! Y u no make sense? Argh!
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Jenny Young 5 years ago (edited)
Great!! Love this but what about pore paw poor and pour ? sheik & shake, residence & residents, practise & practice, licence & license …..
Sue Werner 7 years ago
1st box = one dude is angrier than the other. 2nd box = 3rd dude wants to know why the first two dudes are angry AND the drip and the box are matter with mass or weight.
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What do you think ?
JP 7 years ago
These should be in every grade school classroom. Maybe then we could raise a generation of people that could differentiate between Their, There and They're! Also, we need one for Your and You're!
Maurissa Hunter 7 years ago
I've seen plenty of 30+ who can't spell them right either. So pretty sure it is just confusing for everyone equally.
Load More Replies... Mark McKean 7 years ago
Too many comments of, "That's not how you say it!" No, that may not be how *you* say it, but it's how lots of other people say it. As for regional differences, these as illustrated are all indicative of common standard US English usage. In any other English-speaking locale, YMMV.
Mylah Rose 7 years ago
I went through this whole list waiting for Wonder / Wander and it never came
Christopher Ness 1 year ago
You were wandering through this list? No wonder you didn't fins them.
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ugaas wiilhoog 7 years ago
My favourite one is from the TV show "Undateable" , where the bar they went to was called black eye but some use to think they meant black guy. 😂
Simone 5 years ago
You totally forgot the most important pair of confusing words: us and a*s! Imagine: 'this was a very important moment for us'. Or 'all I can think about is us...'. Also worth remembering the famous song 'Us and them'. And so on... I wonder how an illustration by Bruce would look like!
The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Some aren't so simple as the English and American versions aren't always pronounced the same way. Then, in the UK you get a lot of regional variations - don't know if it's the same for America or not.
Shari H 7 years ago
Absolutely the same in America, we have regional dialects and use different pronunciations within just a few miles of one another. Then there's Tangier Island...just look it up.
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JP 7 years ago
These should be in every grade school classroom. Maybe then we could raise a generation of people that could differentiate between Their, There and They're! Also, we need one for Your and You're!
Maurissa Hunter 7 years ago
I've seen plenty of 30+ who can't spell them right either. So pretty sure it is just confusing for everyone equally.
Load More Replies... Mark McKean 7 years ago
Too many comments of, "That's not how you say it!" No, that may not be how *you* say it, but it's how lots of other people say it. As for regional differences, these as illustrated are all indicative of common standard US English usage. In any other English-speaking locale, YMMV.
Mylah Rose 7 years ago
I went through this whole list waiting for Wonder / Wander and it never came
Christopher Ness 1 year ago
You were wandering through this list? No wonder you didn't fins them.
Load More Replies... ugaas wiilhoog 7 years ago
My favourite one is from the TV show "Undateable" , where the bar they went to was called black eye but some use to think they meant black guy. 😂
Simone 5 years ago
You totally forgot the most important pair of confusing words: us and a*s! Imagine: 'this was a very important moment for us'. Or 'all I can think about is us...'. Also worth remembering the famous song 'Us and them'. And so on... I wonder how an illustration by Bruce would look like!
The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Some aren't so simple as the English and American versions aren't always pronounced the same way. Then, in the UK you get a lot of regional variations - don't know if it's the same for America or not.
Shari H 7 years ago
Absolutely the same in America, we have regional dialects and use different pronunciations within just a few miles of one another. Then there's Tangier Island...just look it up.
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