Fun English Test

pull and pole are homophones?

I found 19 homophones. But, in your penultimate sentence, you mean “fewer” than 19 homophones, rather than “less”, since you can count them.

fishing, bated, won, through, see, pole, sew, new, their, to, fore, ate, hall, moor, four, cent, ant, deer, be.

This was a nice puzzle for the brain. I liked it.

I spotted 19, but I have to wonder whether I may have missed some and been mistaken about others.
When you said “DAH” were you quoting Homer Simpson? If so, the official spelling is “d’oh”. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D‘oh .
But maybe you just meant “duh”:
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=duh

I always thought it was a DUH moment, or maybe that’s the way we pronounce it in Chicago.

“Pole” for “pull”? You must have a delightful dialect or accent!

I drink. I drank. I have drunk. I should have drunk. I haven’t drunk.

All down to pronunciation! Say!

Well, I counted and found 16 the first time and then found 18 the second time. But that only proves that I am from the south.
Judy, surely you know that those people who are supposed to be tech help couldn’t get a job at Burger King, so they applied as a tech assistant. Of course, I could be wrong.
I have the hardest time remembering a password. I have to make it something simple enough for my old brain to remember. If I write it down somewhere… I lose the paper, pad, notebook, whatever… It is obvious to me that I need to take Ginko B… I bought some but couldn’t remember to take it.
There has to be a key to remembering passwords.
Linda

Indeed for simpletons, but I like it, how about something more challenging

Very nice — a good exercise for the mind and eye.

Homophones are funny things. Depending on where you are from, almost any word has a homophone. Take for instance the word “go.” If you are Scottish, “go” has its homophone; “goo.” If you are from certain states the south USA, “earl” and “oil” are homophones. Ain’t English wunnerful?

Judy wrote: “Don’t-cha just hate it when you find out you aren’t perfect??”

I haven’t found this out yet…

Charie could add these also
Mary - merry
Sure -shore (with an accent)

“…haven’t drank a bottle…”! Sorry, I didn’t get to the homophones, because I never got past the grammar. You might want to reconsider
the “a little above decent…communicator” and “articulate” attributes.

I have no claim to fame when it comes to writing. A lot of it (and especially on the Internet) is done in the moment and in a rush. I believe we all fail to communicate in one way or another many times; most times the reader is forgiving and does come back with a quick “correction” note in response but then there are others who will - bless their little hearts.

BTW, Chris sent me.

I enjoyed your article and hope ot see more. I hope this finds you well,

joanna

While it is true that you might have communicated less correctly than necessary to resolve your problem, the support person sounds like she didn’t fully communicate her understanding of the problem. Anything involving accounts really needs to be stated to the customer to make sure the right work is done. I’d call it less than optimum communication both ways and let it slide as an unfortunate oops.

I read the homophone paragraph, but didn’t attempt to find all the words in question.

There are at least 20 if you’re American, 19 if you’re English (or the non-American, English-speaking world). The 20 are: Mary, to, bated, on, won, through, pole, see, sew, new, sure, their, fore, ate, hall, moor, cent, ant, deer, and bee.

But please note the English pronunciation of aunt is AWNT, not ANT, so your 19 works if you’re not American. The homonphone of on, btw is awn, the slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.