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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've always been fascinated by them.  I don't know if it's really true that the English language is the hardest to learn, but I can only imagine how difficult it must be to learn as a second (or third, fourth,...) language.
      January 30, 2017 2:47 PM MST
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  • I once met an elderly Czech who was fluent in eight or nine languages. He said the one that gave him most difficulty was Hebrew. I'm a little in awe of people like that. I'm happy if I can keep all the ducks in a row in my own language.
      January 30, 2017 3:11 PM MST
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  • To subtract two from fourteen is too hard!
      January 30, 2017 4:47 PM MST
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