The English language is confusing

[Droopy]

be/bee

they're/their/there

hire/higher

here/hear

to/too/two

weigh/way

hey/hay

bear/bare

sight/cite

hole/whole

shoot/chute

tea/tee

wait/weight

where/wear/ware

Add your's to the list.

[billyskank]

1. You missed the daddy of them all

Cough/tough/through/bough/thorough

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Worcestershire.

:cry:

[billyskank]

4. That pronunciation crops up in more than one place name

Leicester.
Bicester.

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Arrgh!

:cry:

[Fenris]

5. Gloucestershire!

That one's worse! :D

[jpgray]

6. All right, I'm putting my foot down on that one

Out, vile jelly!

[Fenris]

9. Where is thy lustre now?

;)

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Another one!

:rofl:

I promounce this one somehwat as "Gloschtershyr."

[Xipe Totec]

14. It's Glostah!

They're always from Glostah!

- The Perfect Storm

[graywarrior]

25. I love that line.

I say it a lot...to blank faces.

[Karenina]

11. In the OP are words that SOUND alike

Your post is of words SPELLED, but do not SOUND ALIKE.

TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SPECIES! :evilgrin:

[Droopy]

12. Hey, Karenina

Is your first language something other than English?

[Karenina]

15. Nee, nyet, no, iye, nein, uh-uh...

Me jes' be a language freak. :P

[Droopy]

16. I used to be an English major

Now I'm a truck driver. Go figure. :)

[Karenina]

17. Ever thought of teaching English abroad?

I wanted to drive race cars when I was a teenie. A visit to Watkins Glen was all it took to disabuse me of the notion. I did get licensed for a 66 passenger bus as a summer camp counselor. BUS CHECK!

[Droopy]

18. That's what I wanted to do

Either that or technical writer. I thought it would be cool to be an English teacher abroad. I didn't make it to graduation, though.

[Karenina]

20. THAT MATTERS

NOT ONE WHIT.

[XemaSab]

21. Gough

Street in San Francisco.

How is it pronounced?

Nobody knows.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I thought it was 'gow'

Rhymes with "cow."

No...? :shrug:

[XemaSab]

23. Or "go"

:shrug:

[Droopy]

24. I would think 'go'

Like Vincent Van

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. I'm pretty sure I've heard San Franciscans

pronounce it a la "cow."

Or is that "mow"?

:banghead:

[deadparrot]

2. wind/wind. nt

[fizzgig]

10. my brain hurts too much to do many

base/bass/bass
witch/which
your/you're

[Xipe Totec]

13. Polish/polish

bard/beer/beard/bear/bird/board/bored/boar/burr/berm/burn

Ahhhhhh!

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. If you want confusing, there is....

Featherstonehaugh. Pronounced Fanshaw.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Raymond Luxury Yacht

Pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove."