Homophones
Aug. 24th, 2003 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistSeth and I played Scrabble. We had some great words, like "levers" and "squirts."
Scrabble is always fun.
Me: 'Ot'? That's not a word!
Seth: Sure it is. It means zero.
Me: It's not speleld like that.
Seth: How's it spelled?
Me: A-U-G-H-T.
Seth: [gets up, gets his Scrabble dictionary, looks it up] Awww, you're right. [removes his tiles from the board] But haven't you ever heard old people say they were born in ...
Me: Oh, I know it's a word, it's jut not spelled like that.
Seth: Darn English majors.
Scrabble is always fun.
Me: 'Ot'? That's not a word!
Seth: Sure it is. It means zero.
Me: It's not speleld like that.
Seth: How's it spelled?
Me: A-U-G-H-T.
Seth: [gets up, gets his Scrabble dictionary, looks it up] Awww, you're right. [removes his tiles from the board] But haven't you ever heard old people say they were born in ...
Me: Oh, I know it's a word, it's jut not spelled like that.
Seth: Darn English majors.