Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Homophone Lessons
Squids make great examples.
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Clive Robinson • February 26, 2010 5:41 PM
As a well renound offender against the English spelling and vocab etc it made me smile.
However one thing,
How would a squid tell the difference between
1, Gas Mantel
2, Gas Mantle
And could you tell from where it came?
Martin Budden • February 27, 2010 3:27 AM
Here’s another:
six quid: six pounds sterling (quid is UK slang for pound, cf buck for dollar)
“here’s that six quid I owe you”
sick squid: diseased cephalopod
“there’s a sick squid in your tank”
jgreco • February 27, 2010 12:03 PM
@Martin Budden
I hereby declare you master of puns. Very rarely do things on the internet literally make me ‘laugh out load’. 🙂
yt • February 27, 2010 1:55 PM
I am forever mixing up “discreet” and “discrete”. At least I know I can count on that set of points to keep quiet about sensitive topics.
Aguirre • February 28, 2010 4:04 PM
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Deep: vile squid bated with a viol.
BF Skinner • February 28, 2010 5:15 PM
Saw this in Colbert Report http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-february-23-2010-lindsay-vonn–bob-costas
min 20:30 soemone in the crowd is holding up a white squid …
what is this cult?
vegivamp • March 1, 2010 7:37 AM
My poking piqued the peke on the peak to peek at the hungry squid below.
I now have a new .sig.
jgreco • March 1, 2010 12:43 PM
@doobyous
Arg! My most common typo strikes again. I used to make simple typos like “teh” instead of “the”, but it seems most of my typos these days involve swapping out words that look or sound alike. I think the correct word but somehow my fingers don’t quite get the message 🙂
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Brent Longborough • February 26, 2010 5:10 PM
Hmm, nice, but I don’t think eminent and imminent are homophones…