In Texas, it's easy to tell who is a forest ranger:
they work in a "far tar".
Pyro-Texican
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Most other protoeuropean languages have the written and pronounced words more closely linked. Spanish, French and German, once you learn the rules, are speakable.
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Most other protoeuropean languages have the written and pronounced words more closely linked. Spanish, French and German, once you learn the rules, are speakable.
Very nice! #4 is missing 'reins'. While not the end-all-be-all of English, phonetics is a useful tool in one's box. As it is here however, memory and knowledge rule, and the next several dozens of error prone homonyms I got from Sid Gruff. I mentioned this thread and he promptly dashed off 4 note-pages full. On it goes.
Just a short explanatory note. Placing [dictionary] tags around a word makes it clickable to a definition. In cases of that dictionary missing a definition, I substitute URL tags to the appropriate source.
In that spirit, the quiz above also missed a homonym choice in the first question, prompting today's post.
Re: Homonyms and Their Grammatical Heirs
semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
Pyro-Texican
While not the end-all-be-all of English, phonetics is a useful tool in one's box. 
As it is here however, memory and knowledge rule, and the next several dozens of error prone homonyms I got from Sid Gruff. I mentioned this thread and he promptly dashed off 4 note-pages full. 
On it goes. 
