(01-27-2019, 10:46 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(01-27-2019, 10:06 AM)Jags Wrote: Staying on topic
Gaze, gays
Rays, raise and raze.  (Seriously, the last two mean almost the exact opposite!)

No wonder  English is considered the hardest language.

There was text etched in stone on a marble memorial in Hickory NC that described a church that used to be on that site until it was "raised." It also had "an" where it meant "and." This was in 1980, so they may have fixed it since then.

And as I was typing this I noted that site, cite, and sight get misused.

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(01-27-2019, 10:06 AM)Jags Wrote: Staying on topic
Gaze, gays
Rays, raise and raze.  (Seriously, the last two mean almost the exact opposite!)

No wonder  English is considered the hardest language.

The spelling is hard. The verb tenses are easy and there are no genders for inanimate objects (except ships but you can treat them as inanimate and no one except the captain will try to correct you). 

Sammy would know the gender of a phone if he spoke some other Indo-European language.

(01-28-2019, 12:37 PM)Mikey Wrote: I always pronounce 'mnemonic' as 'minnemonic' so I remember how it's spelled.