Clever Illustrations Of “Same” Words That People Confuse All The Time

What happens when a frog’s car breaks down? It gets toad away! If you laughed at this silly joke, you know that words are fun. Bruce Worden, the man behind a blog called Homophones Weakly, also shares this opinion. Like you might have already guessed, he’s into homophones (each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling). In fact, Bruce likes them so much, he’s even illustrating them. Scroll down for some of the best examples!

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

Easily confused words.

20 thoughts on “Clever Illustrations Of “Same” Words That People Confuse All The Time”

  1. Steak – Stake

  2. Hair – hare

  3. Brake – Break
    Pedal – Petal – Peddle
    Medal – Metal – Meddle – Mettle

  4. Read have read reed instrument

  5. Led – Lead

  6. To – Too – Two

  7. cell – sell

  8. here – hear

  9. steel – steal

  10. cent – sent – scent

  11. weather – whether

  12. EatLiver is Anglo centric with it’s Anglo Saxon words and such. I challenge Land Lord to post some Swahili or Mandarin ‘n such puns for us to enjoy and post to our face book pages.

  13. fairy and ferry aren’t homophones, nor are exercise and exorcise

  14. This works well for English as the pronounciation is so vague.
    Don’t forget, site name is “eat liver”, not a different language.

    I also visit German fun sites, and in german such plays are rarer….

  15. Don’t be a homophobe, fairy.

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  16. I have never been to a country, and I’ve been to most, where they didn’t speak at least some English. It will be how we hunt and destroy you. If you get rid of everyone that ONLY speaks English… you do the math.

  17. I think we found the smartest entity on the web here.

  18. They can’t even speak English, but they’ve been kick ass since 1776. You next?

  19. English is my second language and I don’t find these words confusing. Probably cause in french we have the same thing plus the verbs conjugation.

  20. Trump – Putin

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