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10 examples of how the English language trolls us

By September 5, 2018Language, On Writing

The English language has been trying to trick us for centuries. Homophones are not necessarily homographs, and vice versa.  We steal words from other languages, alter some, inexplicably keep others unchanged. It is a wonderful process that ends up with a language that bamboozles and baffles those attempting to learn English as a second (or third or fourth) language.

To be perfectly honest it confounds even native English speakers at times.

Here are 15 examples of when the English language has trolled us very cleverly indeed.




Actually ‘Bologna’ only rhymes with ‘Pony’ if you pronounce it WRONG.

That is so versatile and useful… and confusing.

Wait, what?

‘Three languages in a trench coat’ is the title of my new album.

Good point




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