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Benedict Arnold

If you were herding sheep in warm weather how could you tell whether a wether is a ram?

Weather/whether/wether: same sound, different meanings. What other triplets can you think of that sound the same but mean quite different things?

Posted - January 29, 2017
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  • I always thought a wether was an older female sheep?
      January 30, 2017 5:13 AM MST
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  • So did I, but on looking it up I find it's a eunuch. It was a surprise to me, too. 
      January 30, 2017 2:08 PM MST
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  • They're driving there in their car.
      January 30, 2017 5:28 AM MST
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  • Perfect!  Here's a conversation I remember from a B.C. comic strip. 

    He: How do you spell there? 
    Him: Is that t-h-e-r-e, t-h-i-e-r, or t-h-e-y-'-r-e?
    He: T-h-i-e-r.
    Him: T-h-e-i-r.
    He: I thought so. 
      January 30, 2017 2:13 PM MST
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  • A quicker "Who's on first."
      January 30, 2017 2:16 PM MST
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  • Ewes are?
      January 30, 2017 5:39 AM MST
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  • I remember a newspaper comment about boxer, Jeff Fennech, that said his vowels are, "a, e, i, o, and ewes".
      January 30, 2017 2:15 PM MST
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  • Lol ... Before my time :)
      January 30, 2017 4:06 PM MST
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  • Cripes! Feels like yesterday to me. :(
      January 30, 2017 4:24 PM MST
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  • Your first name is not Ridgy it?
      January 30, 2017 4:27 PM MST
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  • No hardly, but you got a laugh. :) 
      January 30, 2017 4:45 PM MST
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  • Strine test ...
      January 30, 2017 4:48 PM MST
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  • "Sox" ... team nickname (noun)
    "Socks" ... foot coverings (noun)
    "Socks" ... hits with fist (verb)
      January 30, 2017 5:43 AM MST
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  • Thanks, Alf. You a Boston boy? 
      January 30, 2017 2:16 PM MST
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  • No ... I just rewatched "The Heat."  Part of it was portrayed in Boston and the script was my inspiration for the answer. :)

      January 30, 2017 2:29 PM MST
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  • "Use" ... take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing a purpose or achieving a result; employ.
    "Ewes" ... female sheep
    "Youse" ... Bostonian for Ya'll.
      January 30, 2017 5:48 AM MST
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  • Yep, I'll pay those. I guess you really are from Beantown. 
      January 30, 2017 2:18 PM MST
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  • New England, but not Boston.
      January 30, 2017 2:30 PM MST
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  • Pawn: lowest chess piece

    Pawn: To use physical objects as collateral for a loan

    Pawn: Bostonian for porn
      January 30, 2017 6:04 AM MST
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  • Good choices. 

    I was once asked by a wealthy guy why he found it so hard to beat me at chess. I explained that he was the boss, a money man, and all his friends were executives. When you play you squander your pawns and depend on your major pieces to win the game. I'm a working man and I look after my pawns. When all the pieces are cleared off the board my pawns then march down to your end of the board, stage a revolution, and kick you butt. 

    I might have been kidding but I wasn't wrong. :)
      January 30, 2017 2:21 PM MST
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  • Nice one ... I like how you segued seamlessly into American politics
      January 30, 2017 4:08 PM MST
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  • Unintentional segue, OzG. He was a local guy who rang the NSW Chess Association and asked where he could learn to play on the Blue Mountains. They didn't have anybody up here but gave him my phone number. Nice guy. 
      January 30, 2017 4:23 PM MST
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  • 6124
    Ah, a homonym thread.  Well done Didge.

    Vain
    Vane
    Vein

    By 
    Buy
    Bye

    Meet
    Meat
    Mete

    Bear - animal
    Bear - to support
    Bare - all naked and stuff


      January 30, 2017 2:32 PM MST
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  • Good slection. Thanks, Harry. 
      January 30, 2017 2:33 PM MST
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