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…..
tech problem and other miscellania
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Monday when I went out to cover a few things in advance of the hard freeze
tonight this white iris was blooming confused by the unseasonably warm
weather...
2 days ago
not mention all those crazy silent letters.
ReplyDeleteSo true...Ha!!
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SueAnn
this sort of stuff tickles me.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I learned something. I never knew lyre sounded like liar. I always thought it sounded like leer. So thank you for that!