Homonyms
I'm reminded of the difficulty of the English language as I watch our kids learn it. A great strength of English is its assimilation of words from many other languages, but this assimilation makes the spelling of words very unpredictable. There are homophones in English that I never thought about as homophones. Below you'll find a list of words that our children have found confusing:threw, through
meet, meat
to, two, too [a triple homonym!, much to their delight]
bear, bare [only a double homonym, but one with more than two meanings]
steel, steal ["What does steel have to do with baseball?"]
box, Bach's [yes, the word "Bach's" does come up when your parents are musicians]
posted by Stahlkes @ 9:30 PM
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