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Tuesday Tricksters, Loot -- Male

Tuesday Tricksters, Loot -- Male

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flew / flu / fue Breath / breathe / breadth 8

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have different spelling Da
have different Pigs chute / shoot
counsel / council
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dae genes / jeans
397 gifted / gui sold / 50d
team / teem ay guik / 80!
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assistance / assistants ike clause / claws

 

cents / sense

sent / scent

So it's Tuesday again, and time for another edition of Tuesday Tricksters, words (homophones) that sound like at least one other word (or nearly so), but have different spellings and meanings. They can crop up in any writer's articles, so I just hope everyone continues to remember not to trust spellcheck to do more than it can.


Loot (v.): to plunder; strip of valuables; despoil; (n.): stolen money or goods

Lute (n.): an old stringed instrument related to the guitar


Lux (adj.): the International System unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square meter

Luxe (n.): richness, elegance, luxury, or the like

Looks (v.): peers at; stares at; (n): one's appearance


Mac (n.): a shortened term for a Macintosh computer or Mackintosh raincoat; also a slang term for a male whose name you don't know (Hey, Mac!)

Mach (n.): (physics) a ratio聽of the speed (of an object, etc.) to the speed of sound聽in the fluid聽or other medium聽through which the object travels. Usually used to describe supersonic聽speeds.


Made (v.): past tense of to make

Maid (n.): a female who is hired to do domestic tasks; (archaic) a young unmarried female


Mail (adj.): related to the handling or delivery of letters and packages (mail carrier); (n.): letters, cards, papers and packages delivered by the postal service; (v.): to send something through the postal service

Male (adj.): belonging to the masculine gender; identifying one's gender as masculine; (n.): one of the masculine sex or gender

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Are any of these new to you?聽I learned about聽lux and luxe, two words I thought I knew. Didn't.

For more on these or to check any English word you're not sure of, a great resource is聽
www.YourDictionary.com, which shows words, their definitions, and usage from several dictionaries.

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Comments
Thanks, @Pedro Mattos, for sharing my buzz! I really appreciate it!
#9
Thanks, Laura Mikolaitis!
#3
Oh, good one, Kevin Pashuk; I didn't even see that definition when I was checking them. You're so right!
#2
And,, that's why I always write "sound alike or nearly so" because you never know how someone will pronounce a word! Now that you've had your break -- back to work!
#1
Trust me, Todd Jones, I will!

Kevin Pashuk

7 years ago #1

Let's not forget to don our 'coat of mail'... which has nothing to do with your postal carrier.

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