Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Criminal Sentence 17: Soundalikes

Not a sentence but criminal all the same.

On the menu at my daughter's school:

Green beens

"Bean" sounds like "been," but "beens" isn't a word!

Another one I saw on a sign outside a drugstore:

Summer Sandles
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM

    Are these not 'homonyms'?
    I always think a dead giveaway 'spellcheck'overuse.

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  2. The Sentence SleuthJune 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM

    They're actually called homophones. You were close!

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