Whine/wine, do/due, hole/whole, high/hi

Tobin S.

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:31 AM
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Whine/wine, do/due, hole/whole, high/hi

sole/soul
buy/bye
weather/whether
time/thyme
their/they're/there
would/wood
sun/son
sight/cite/site
but/butt
so/sew
see/sea
shoot/chute
climb/clime
pin/pen
sore/soar
load/lode
flee/flea
sent/scent
sense/cents
through/threw
main/mane
tail/tale
pitcher/picture
loan/lone
die/dye
bear/bare
cord/chord
tic/tick
symbol/cymbal
slow/sloe
know/no
knew/new
weight/wait
hair/hare
slay/sleigh
road/rode
pole/poll

That's the kind of thing I think about when I'm driving my semi down the road. Boredom, yes, but I am fascinated by words. Add your's to the list.

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Moondog

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:34 AM
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1. Check out this site -

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

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Tobin S.

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:42 AM
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4. I see I'm not the only one with this illness

Thanks for the link.

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Sanity Claws

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:35 AM
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2. Along the same line

to/two/too
world/whirled

I love playing with words!

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Tobin S.

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:39 AM
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3. How did I miss to/two/too! :)

There may be a thousand words out there like that. It makes me think that english would be a tough language to learn if you weren't a native speaker.

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suninvited

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:42 AM
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5. vile/vial

wear/where

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Rabrrrrrr

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:44 AM
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6. Evil/Cheney

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Tobin S.

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Mon Jul-27-09 11:07 AM
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9. How did I miss that one!

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Mon Jul-27-09 10:59 AM
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7. gummy/gummi - god forbid!

:eyes:

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cwydro

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Mon Jul-27-09 11:03 AM
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8. bear/bare

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auntAgonist

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Mon Jul-27-09 07:42 PM
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10. this bugs me

then/than

ie:

I went to the store and bought a bigger one then the one I already had.

that's all.

:)

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Mon Jul-27-09 07:58 PM
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11. Yours/your's.

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