Pronunciation puzzles
Pronunciation puzzles
A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt identical to, another word with a different meaning.
For example, the letter “a” has the homonym “eh”.
What’s interesting about “eh” is that it does not contain the letter it sounds like. There’s no “a” in “eh”.
1: Pronounced the same, spelt differently.
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