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11/11/22

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Originally posted by PhantomGWW: ↑
Not my work - sent from a friend and may have been posted before -
Also have another to come.
Apologies if 'cut paste' is off
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.
You think English is easy?? An English teacher was bored...

Read all the way to the end...A lot of work to put this together!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.4) We must polish the Polish furniture..
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out of the lead metal cover
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To plant seeds, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong towind the sail up.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of subjective tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate girl friend that I did not want to be intimate now!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
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People refer to sleeping with someone....

I prefer to stay awake with them!

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