*Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.*

*You think English is easy?? *I think a retired English teacher was bored...

*Read all the way to the end.................This took a lot of work to put together!*

1) The bandage was *wound *around the *wound.*

2) The farm was used to *produce produce*.

3) The dump was so full that it had to *refuse *more *refuse*.

4) We must *polish *the *Polish *furniture..

5) He could *lead *if he would get the *lead *out.

6) The soldier decided to *desert *his dessert in the *desert..*

7) Since there is no time like the *present*, he thought it was time to *present *the *present.*

8) A *bass *was painted on the head of the *bass *drum.

9) When shot at, the *dove dove *into the bushes.

10) I did not *object *to the *object.*

11) The insurance was *invalid *for the *invalid.*

12) There was a *row *among the oarsmen about how to *row*.

13) They were too *close *to the door to *close *it.

14) The buck *does *funny things when the *does *are present.

15) A seamstress and a *sewer *fell down into a *sewer *line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his *sow *to *sow.*

17) The *wind *was too strong to *wind *the sail.

18) Upon seeing the *tear *in the painting I shed a *tear..*

19) I had to *subject *the *subject *to a series of tests.

20) How can I *intimate *this to my most *intimate *friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

Fun!

Interesting!

The *general* in leading the troops, was effective in *general*

The archer dropped his bow when he took a bow.

The dentist gave the patient a *number* of shots to make his mouth *number*.

A doctor needs a lot of patience when she has a lot of patients.

We discussed it with disgust.

There were two* too* many to* read*, but I read* them anyway.

I love these

He had a merry Christmas because Mary agreed to marry him.

I lost my pen, I'll look in the aisle for it.

They're over there in their office.

I lost my pen. I think I dropped it when I was petting the sheep in her pen.

Driving down the windy road was difficult because it was a windy day.

The doctor wound gauze around the wound.

The horse-divers ate hors d'oeuvres before diving the horses.

The planes flew over the plains. The passengers ate corn while listening to Korn.

the deaf leopard wasn't able to listen to Def Leppard

Fierce winds buffeted Jimmy Buffett's boat before he could bring out the buffet.

I felt less sad about the death of my goldfish after listening to Holy Wars by Megadeth

One peek at the peak sure did pique my interest.

There are those that didn't pay attention to their grammar lessons and as a result they're grammatically incorrect.

After I was through with the paper plate I threw it away.