Turtle Posted November 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 pair pear pare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lindagarrette Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 When I was in grammar school, I had to study phonetic spelling which was a farce. English is not phonetic. For example. Homonyms Quiz Most other protoeuropean languages have the written and pronounced words more closely linked. Spanish, French and German, once you learn the rules, are speakable. Queso and Turtle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted November 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 When I was in grammar school, I had to study phonetic spelling which was a farce. English is not phonetic. For example. Homonyms Quiz Most other protoeuropean languages have the written and pronounced words more closely linked. Spanish, French and German, once you learn the rules, are speakable. Very nice! :) #4 is missing 'reins'.;) While not the end-all-be-all of English, phonetics is a useful tool in one's box. As it is here however, memory and knowledge rule, and the next several dozens of error prone homonyms I got from Sid Gruff. I mentioned this thread and he promptly dashed off 4 note-pages full. :eek: :hihi: On it goes. feufew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted November 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 Just a short explanatory note. Placing tags around a word makes it clickable to a definition. In cases of that dictionary missing a definition, I substitute URL tags to the appropriate source. In that spirit, the quiz above also missed a homonym choice in the first question, prompting today's post. :cup: [dictionary]tael tail tale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted November 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 mind mined Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doctordick Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Hi Turtle, I haven't read all of the entries here but I bet I have one that I bet no one has noticed. In fact, the possibility of confusion never even dawned on me until my wife pointed out what she thought I had said. My wife is quite a quilter. She started quilting three years ago when she retired and has created some 70 quilts already (I often point out that she's turning them out at about one every two week). And these are blue ribbon quilts for the most part. She just got asked to give some courses on “paper piecing” by two different quilting guilds so she's good. By the way she was a math major in college so she knows how figure out the best way to lay these things out. So, this morning she wanted me to draw a particular figure out which was too large for her drawing implements. I have quite a nice drawing set up for making blue prints which I have had for some thirty years so she wanted me to make this complex “paper piecing” template with some old unused blue print paper I had. So we were setting up my compass to draw some circles which had to be fairly accurate sewing wise anyway. At any rate, she was holding the ruler while I set my bar compass to the radius, holding the point on the zero. Now my eyesight's not so great anymore and, since the ruler happened to be in tenths of an inch, I was trying to estimate the middle between two marks. She kept saying, “you're off the mark” and I kept saying “it's in tenths” while I concentrated on centering the thing. It was quite clear that she thought the ruler was in sixteenths and I couldn't understand why she wasn't listening to me. Because of her interruptions I finally stopped and said, “the ruler is in tenths of an inch and I am trying to estimate the middle”. Then she told me she thought I was saying, “it's intense”. So we both had a laugh and went back to work. Have fun -- Dick DougF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Hi Turtle, I haven't read all of the entries here but I bet I have one that I bet no one has noticed. In fact, the possibility of confusion never even dawned on me until my wife pointed out what she thought I had said. ... Because of her interruptions I finally stopped and said, “the ruler is in tenths of an inch and I am trying to estimate the middle”. Then she told me she thought I was saying, “it's intense”. So we both had a laugh and went back to work. Have fun -- Dick :applause: That's a great one; thanks for contributing Dick. The same might be said of the circus, that is, 'it's in tents'. :cup::santa3: Here's a three-fer: centsentscent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 maise maze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 dew do doo due Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Turtle Posted December 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 cellar seller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 cellar seller Sell 'er (distinguished from 'seller' by being a two-part command consisting of a transitive verb and a direct object) Sailor (perhaps a stretch, but I'm guessing it works in Australya) :thumbs_up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted December 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 cellar seller Sell 'er (distinguished from 'seller' by being a two-part command consisting of a transitive verb and a direct object) :hihi:Sailor (perhaps a stretch, but I'm guessing it works in Australya) :) I don't know about Oz, but I'll allow "sell 'er" is in the spirit of sound-alikes making for errors. I tried hard to justify adding 'celler', as in one who makes or uses cells, but found only at best 'celled' and so left it off. :love: Who could have guessed that a guest could sell 'er? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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