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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That Reminds me this funny video about an Italian that went to Malta :) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFQFvSPhQ8
That's why the auto-pilot cars keeps crashing.. Stupid autocorrect 😀
The couple make a smile: their heads are the eyes, their hands are the mouth, and the heart is the nose!
Depends where you live. I say tomato ketchup, but not tomato catch up.
I wonder how many people under say 25, know what the second is a picture of?
I do read books (pronounced like reed) and I have read books (pronounced like red)
Y'all should see Mike and Alex towing with their toes on Ten Feet Tall.
Eminent, person of importance. Immanent thoughts, not good ones. Imminent, something close at hand. Emanate, to give off a force.
Wye: A balanced means of connecting 3-phase alternating current whereby each load is connected line-neutral.
Hmm. This is the first one that I frequently use wrong. I thought both were spelled with an A.
What your'e eating in a mussle is the muscle, isn't it? (She sells sea shells...)
Hay's for horses, grass is cheaper, dirt is free.. Buy a farm you get all three!!!
The skull is from the "Alas, poor Yorick" speech, not the "To be or not to be" speech.
So not a silent T at the end of Continents, or not a silent C in Continence either.
Apart from the fact that petal is pronounced "PET"al , and peddle is pronounced "PEDD"le
Page 13/27 and the viewers are fewer. I'm upvoting the ones with 3 or more words/meanings.
Oooooohhhhh! I thought it was saying ten to, o'clock, ten past! ^^' thanks for explaining!!
This is one that many self-published authors seem to get wrong. Continually.
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.)
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
In my head vial has two syllables while vial has one, but with my twangy accent they sound alike
Just like it's friend "moan" (#106 above), Groan looks like it's throwing up.
Bravo. In re Led Zeppelin IV, the symbol for drummer John Bonham is as shown above.
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.
Memory: capitAl something with [greater] vAlue (capital letter, capital city); capitOl buildings might have a dOme.
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
So does anyone see the "th" in the middle of Clothes?? They are not silent.
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.
Arguable. I pronounce the first as written with emphasis on both syllables: mag-nate.
I feel like you have to already know the definitions and differences of some of those words to understand the illustration
American pronunciation only. Hostile has a long 'i' sound as in style. Same thing for missile.
Confused here. Hymn pronounced like hem, like in a skirt or pants, not him.
One has a "t" on the end of it which makes it sound different if you pronounced them properly
On some American films, I have heard the word halve pronounced 'haff', but that still doesn't sound like 'have'.
I think he's taking the p**s. These two words are so different, wow!
Great!! Love this but what about pore paw poor and pour ? sheik & shake, residence & residents, practise & practice, licence & license …..
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!
I've seen plenty of 30+ who can't spell them right either. So pretty sure it is just confusing for everyone equally.
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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.
I went through this whole list waiting for Wonder / Wander and it never came
You were wandering through this list? No wonder you didn't fins them.
Load More Replies... 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!
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... 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.
I went through this whole list waiting for Wonder / Wander and it never came
You were wandering through this list? No wonder you didn't fins them.
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