You dirty homophones!

[798686]

Homeopaths! :biggrin1:

 

[Drifterwood]

Homeopaths! :biggrin1:

Only by degrees :smile:.

 

[maxcok]

To my UK ear the comment is pretntious.

No, you are pretentious.

Why don't you go and sneer......

No, you are sneering.

OK Max, let's call it a day.

Bottoms up! :drunk:

 

[798686]

Only by degrees :smile:.

Mason. :wink:

 

[Drifterwood]

Bottoms up!

What you do in the privacy of your home, is your own business, Max.

 

[Drifterwood]

Mason. :wink:

Talking of Grand Prix, you should try watching one with very excitable commentary in Chinese.

 

[willow78]

Well, to my American ear, it sounds a bit rustic if anything unusual at all. Would it seem any different if I had said "a hundred and some-odd years"? I assure you that the latter phrase is of widespread and long-established use.

That would sound weird, because "some-odd" in this context is - to me, at least - a tautology.

 

[798686]

Talking of Grand Prix, you should try watching one with very excitable commentary in Chinese.

Lol! I can imagine.

Missed today's. :frown1: Too busy lobbying Bernie & David Richards for a Welsh GP.

 

[Calboner]

In another thread, Kenny233 offers another example: "That peaked my interest." The phrase is "to pique someone's interest." I am not sure what people who write "peak" in that context think that the phrase means, but the verb "to pique" comes from a French verb meaning "to prick" or "to pinch," which is also the source of the word "piquant."

 

[sexualnapalm]

In another thread, Kenny233 offers another example: "That peaked my interest." The phrase is "to pique someone's interest." I am not sure what people who write "peak" in that context think that the phrase means, but the verb "to pique" comes from a French verb meaning "to prick" or "to pinch," which is also the source of the word "piquant."

Thank you Cal, I love that one.

I have a friend who types All instead of I'll. It's not a homophone, technically, but it drives me bat shit crazy!!!!

 

[Calboner]

Thank you Cal, I love that one.

I have a friend who types All instead of I'll. It's not a homophone, technically, but it drives me bat shit crazy!!!!

Maybe it's a homophone for him! Homophony is, after all, variable between accents.

 

[sexualnapalm]

Maybe it's a homophone for him! Homophony is, after all, variable between accents.

Perhaps, but as a legal secretary, I would think she'd know better!

 

[Calboner]

I just came across the phrase "a deep-seeded faith." The expression is "deep-seated," not "deep-seeded." Of course, it is only in North America, and perhaps Ireland, that the two phrases can be homophonous.

 

[Bbucko]

In another thread, Kenny233 offers another example: "That peaked my interest." The phrase is "to pique someone's interest." I am not sure what people who write "peak" in that context think that the phrase means, but the verb "to pique" comes from a French verb meaning "to prick" or "to pinch," which is also the source of the word "piquant."

The same case can be made for clique and click; I see the latter batted about all too frequently. I don't have the heart to correct her, but my sister always ends her e-mails to me with "chow" :redface: