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FUN with WORDS: Homophones
An old joke tells of someone asking the assistant at a paper shop: ‘Do you keep stationery?’ and she replies: ‘No, I wriggle about a bit.’ She clearly thought he meant the word that is spelt ‘stationary’. There are many pairs of words like this, which sound the same but are spelt differently. They are called homophones or sometimes homonyms.
Identify the pairs of homophones from the following clues.
Example: One word means a place for keeping aircraft; the other word means a shaped piece of wood, metal, etc. on which you can hang clothes.
Answer: Hangar/hanger.
1. One word means simple; the other means an aircraft.
2. One word means expected; the other word means condensed vapour (vapor).
3. One word is nautical; the other is central to the body.
4. One word means connections; the other is an animal.
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