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[Boog]

Hi Boog,
young friend did her teacher's exchange year in the UK.
Teaching 6th form (Grade 12) grammar, all the girls were blushing and all the boys were sniggering.
After class the headmaster told her "Over here we call them full stops."

Being that she is a teacher, I hope she was able to teach those savages proper English.

 

[kshansen]

Hi Ken,
rite, right and wright all sound the same and you must deduce which one is meant from context.
I reckon that alike-sounding words with different meanings are rare in French because that language is like a hardwood for making musical instruments and are common in English because that language is laminated from many others like plywood and like plywood, it holds the world together.

Not sure of that analogy, sometimes I think wafer-board or flake-board would be a better one!