CATEGORY ： English 12 100 Homonyms 2006/12/30 Sat TB ： CM ： 0 △

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and daugh?
Others may stumble but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead--
For goodness sake don't call it "deed"!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and frond and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart--
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!


homonyms: - a word that is spelled the same and sounds the same as another, but is different in meaning or origin.

For example;

to too two find fined sun son hear here for fore four forth fourth bear bare bear its it's your

you're whose who's accept except course coarse past passed peace piece weather whether rain rein reign right rite write sight

site cite weak week beach beech presence presents meat meet track tract threw through alter altar born borne ascent assent

advice advise device devise fair fare dye die wait weight waste waist cent sent scent break brake heal heel dual

duel lone loan lead led idle idol heard herd profit prophet sore soar so sow sew sell cell bread bred