Friday, June 8, 2012

Words, Words, Words--another variation...

air or heir

fare or fair

Been—bean


Bare—bear

Meet—meat

Deer—dear

Fair—fare

Heel—heal

Lead [to be in front]—lead [an alloy]

Pear—pare

Rear [at the end of something]—rear [to raise up]

Stare—stair

Tear [to rip something]—tear [the product of crying]

Wear—where

liar [to tell an untruth] or lyre [an instrument]



And we wonder why people have such a hard time with English…..

3 comments:

  1. not mention all those crazy silent letters.

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  2. this sort of stuff tickles me.

    And, I learned something. I never knew lyre sounded like liar. I always thought it sounded like leer. So thank you for that!

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