The English language. Sometimes you just have to think, what the…?    I’m no expert at other languages, but I did take a semester of German in high school, and I didn’t have to worry about the muddle of like-sounding words with different definitions as often as we seem to have in the English language. Do you? Or am I just hypercritical of homophones?

Nevertheless, instead of continuing my mundane-whining questions, we can create our own interesting questions from the available abundance of English homophones:

1. Do you want to see the sea before you die?

2. Don’t you think that almost any other vegetable can beat a beet for taste?

3. Which type of witch would best sear a seer in a battle?

4. Do you think the fare they charge to attend the State Fair is fair?

5. Is waiting two weeks to do laundry too much time?

6. So, do you think a farmer would sow in a field while his wife would sew in the farmhouse?

7. Would you stare at a stair if you had to draw it for art class?

8. Would you shoo a bee with your shoe, if need be?

9. In a painting where the wind blew over an orange fruit stand, would not we all have to use the color orange and perhaps even some of us would paint the wind blue?

10. When you were little and read Little Red Riding Hood did you think perhaps she lived in your ‘hood? Or at least perhaps her grandmother did?

12. Can it be considered quite a feat if a can-can dancer opened a can of corn while kicking up her feet?

13. If the wine would run out – would you whine or would you run to the store for some more?

14. Can you believe you read to here to hear all these tonal replications?

Sorry for that. Also, I offer an apology to any or all of the English Profs reading this and wanting to take out their correcting pens.

Fortunately for you all, I have to quit now. I need to read to Reed, my son, before bedtime.

How many homophones did you see? There are at least forty.