English: more homonyms (aka homophones)

The tutor offers another couple of fun homonyms, or homophones, depending on which dictionary you use.

Homonyms are a favoured topic here. Just key homophone or homonym in the search box to bring up a few earlier articles about them.

As a family, we play Boggle, the old word-find game by Parker Brothers, 1973. Of course, knowing rare words is handy in that context.

Today, my older son claimed “wale”, asking for a dictionary check. The word turned out to be good: Webster says it means “a ridge on cloth”, like you see with corduroy. So whale and wale are another pair of homonyms for our growing list.

At the same time, there’s weal, which means (Webster, again) prosperity – as opposed to the much more common wheel.

Boggle is a great way to cut the hours spent with electronics:)

Sources:

Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary, Harper-Collins, 2004.

Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2004.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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