What about expressions like "cruise crews" - same pronunciation, different spellings, different meanings, and making sense.
There seem to be a lot of these combinations - "to two, too." And "ate eight." The "whole hole". And so on.
One can learn better spellings with silly sentences that contain homophones. Here are a few:
The priest had chewing gum stuck to his soul. There was a leek in the boat and it sank. The guerrilla was fed bananas at the zoo. She used flower and water to make bread. The man put wooden steaks in his garden. He walked into the mail bathroom.
And what about all the silly homophone jokes:
1. How many members of a convent does it take to change a light bulb? Nun.
2. What did the chess piece say before bed? Knight knight.
3. What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea.
4. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still no idea.
5. What does Santa say when gardening? Hoe hoe hoe.
6. Why would a chess piece in charge of a city be like a bad dream? Because it would be a knight mayor.
And we can even find jokes with reference to homophones and homophones in them:
Just saw a man crying because he doesn't know what a homophone is. To comfort him I sat next to him, patted his back and said, "They're, their, there..."
A dictionary and a thesaurus have a child together They had a difficult time accepting that their child was a homophone
Got called a homophone after leaving a bad review on a store's website. Look, eye don't care who cells the product. If it brakes, I won't by it with my hard urned cache!
I am not at the train convention which is on this weekend in Seattle this year, so found a picture from a previous show.
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