{"id":53321,"date":"2026-09-15T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=53321"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:51:04","slug":"english-homonyms-bite-and-bight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-bite-and-bight\/","title":{"rendered":"English: homonyms: bite and bight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, homonyms are always interesting. The tutor mentions bite and bight.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nMost people will probably agree that &#8220;bite&#8221; means a morsel of food. However, &#8220;bight&#8221; has been coming up in my reading lately.<\/p>\n<p>\nBight, in the marine context, can be a gradual inward curve, forming a subtle bay, along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\nGilmour, L. (editor). (2006). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus.<\/em> HarperCollins Publishers.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/bight.html\">\nNational Ocean Service. (June 16, 2024). &#8220;What is a bight?&#8221; https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/bight.html<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, homonyms are always interesting. The tutor mentions bite and bight. The following is according &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-bite-and-bight\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: homonyms: bite and bight<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2996,4424],"tags":[966],"class_list":["post-53321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homonyms","category-marine","tag-homophones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53322,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53321\/revisions\/53322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}