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…..
as if the first full day of the new MAGAt administration wasn’t going to be
bad enough…
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This is what greeted me when I got up this morning
and it continued to snow for another three hours or so. The rain gauge
showed two inches but it seeme...
12 hours 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!