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Thread #106570 Message #2204649
Posted By: clueless don
29-Nov-07 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
This doesn't have anything to do with grammar, as far as I can tell, but two of my favorite examples of homophones (or almost homophones) are:
An event ran from 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM on consecutive days, so I told a friend that the event on the second day ran "from two to two too."
"He didn't have the mettle to meddle with my metal medal."