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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
accept - to receive except - other than adapt - to adjust adept - skilled affect - to have influence on effect - result all ready - prepared already - by this time all right - satisfactory, very well alright - grammatically incorrect all together - everyone in a group altogether - wholly allude - to refer to elude - to evade or escape allusion - indirect reference illusion - erroneous belief or perception all ways - by all methods always - at all times, forever annual - yearly annul - to void any one - any one person, followed by "of" anyone - anybody, any person at all any way - any method anyway - in any case anyways - grammatically incorrect appraise - to estimate apprise - to tell or to inform ascent - a movement up assent - agreement assistance - aid assistants - helpers assure - to guarantee ensure - to make sure insure - to protect against loss bare - unclothed bear - to carry, or an animal beside - by the side of besides - in addition to biannual - occurring twice a year biennial - occurring once every two years biweekly - occurring once every two weeks semiweekly - occurring twice a week board - a plane of wood bored - uninterested born - brought into life borne - carried brake - stop break - smash buy - purchase by - next to bye - good-bye capital - the seat of government capitol - the building where a legislature meets cite - to quote an authority sight - the ability to see site - a place compliment - an expression of praise, admiration, or congratulation complement - something that completes or makes up a whole continual - occurring regularly continuous - without interruption credible - believable creditable - worthy of praise desert - to abandon dessert - after-dinner course device - an invention devise - to invent or plot discreet - reserved; respectful discrete - individual or distinct elicit - to bring out illicit - illegal every one - each person; always followed by "of" everyone - everybody; every person in a group farther - actual or literal distance further - additional forth - forward fourth - after "third" forward - toward the front; ahead foreword - preface gorilla - a large primate guerrilla - a kind of soldier hear - to perceive by ear here - in this place heard - past tense of "hear" herd - a group of animals hole - an opening whole - complete its - possessive of "it" it's - contraction of "it is" later - after the usual or proper time latter - more recent lead - heavy metal led - past tense of "lead" lessen - to make less lesson - something learned may be - verb form maybe - perhaps meat - flesh meet - encounter mete - to allot; distribute no - the opposite of "yes" know - to be certain overdo - to carry too far overdue - past due passed - past tense of "pass" past - after; a time gone by patience - forbearance patients - persons under medical care peace - the absence of war piece - a portion of something plain - clear plane - a carpenter's tool; or an airborne vehicle presence - the state of being at hand presents - gifts principal - most important; the head of a school; the amount borrowed in a loan principle - basic truth or law quiet - no noise quite - entirely or actually rain - precipitation reign - to rule rein - strap for controlling an animal raise - to build up raze - to tear down residence - a house residents - people who reside in a residence respectfully - in a courteous manner respectively - in the order mentioned right - correct rite - a religious ceremony road - surface for driving rode - past tense of "ride" scene - where an action occurs seen - past participle of "see" sight - something seen site - a place, including a location in cyberspace someone - somebody some one - some person; always followed by "of" some time - a period of time sometime - at some unspecified time stationary - unmoving stationery - writing paper statue - a carved or molded figure stature - height; status statute - law straight - unbending strait - water passageway tenant - one who rents property tenet - a principle; a belief their - possessive of "they" there - opposite of "here" they're - contraction of "they" and "are" to - toward too - also two - the number that follows one waist - the middle of the body waste - discarded material waiver - the giving up of a right or claim waver - to show indecision weak - not strong week - Sunday through Saturday which - one of a group witch - a sorcerer who's - contraction of "who" and "is" whose - possessive of "who" your - possessive form of "you" you're - contraction of "you are" |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Hey Sharon - this is great! Thankye!!!!!!  K |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
yes great sharon - now, following on from what i was saying lets make people contribute and think and hopefully learn at the same time. FIND YOUR OWN WORDPLAYS each person must find one or two or three wordplays along the lines of those sharon has posted and submit them. probably best to keep them in this thread or it will get too cumbersome ......: here are mine: tenon - a projection in a piece of timber to fit into a mortise tendon - white tissue connecting muscle and bone for example a mortise - socket in timber (for example) to receive tenon to form joint amortise* - to provided for the gradual extinguishment of a lump sum (usually borrowing) * US spelling "amortize" flair -talent flare - to burn with an unsteady blame, to open or spread outwards fleur - as in "fleur-de-lys" - literally lily flower, french "flower" [This message has been edited by Poertree (edited 10-09-2000).] |
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Romy Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1170Plantation, Florida |
Okay here's mine: CORES, CORPS, CORPSE Apples have cores. A corps is an organization, like the Peace Corps. A corpse is a dead body, a carcass. WEATHER, WHETHER, WETHER The climate is made up of "weather"; whether it is nice out depends on whether it is raining or not. A wether is just a castrated sheep. BREATHE, BREATH When you need to breathe, you take a breath. |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
brilliant debbie ..thanks ........ now where are the rest of you?? ... and it's no excuse that it's the middle of the night in Oz and NZ...... !![This message has been edited by Poertree (edited 10-09-2000).] |
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jbouder Member Elite
since 1999-09-18
Posts 2534Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash |
My contribution: beer/bier You hope someone brings this to a party/funeral. wine/whine There are fine wines but no fine whiners. lager/logger After a busy day in the woods, the logger grabs a frosty lager. Jim |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
PhiLLip - Not everyone is a seer! So your impatience just might sear their sensibilities, leaving them feeling sere just because you wrote yours quickly (perhaps something you’d learned by rote?). We all know our role here, so let’s just let things roll along without a designated layout. Instead, let’s just go lay out at the beach and say bad thinks about K. Cool? Chris  PS - GREAT job everyone - I'm impressed! Careful though, someone might start assuming we can think or something...  |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
jim, my suspicions about your proclivities are confirmed  verrrryyy clever btwchris here's another ..... L - something that you don't duplicate when ask not to do so ****** politely HELL - something you end up in if you do otherwise quite clever i grudgingly admit and therefore entertaining which is what we should be aiming for ... no? and another: OH K - She's just opened her mouth again once too often OK - what you are not if you tell her so ~~~~~~~~ bye by bi ......... Philip |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I'm soooooo sorry Phiip! (that better...?) ROFL@ OH K / OK!!! I about fell out of my seat!!!  Would Ho-K fit in there anywhere... you know as in Ho-K do-K?  Hmmm - she's unusually quiet... quite unlike her... should we be scared Phiip? |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
you should be flippin' scared if you don't put that "L" back before i get up tomorrow morning ...... grrrrrrrrr  |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
But I REALLY like Phiip! (fee-ip) It has pizazz!!! It "pops" Fee-ip! Fee-ip! Hehe. No, I think I'm gonna keep Phiip. |
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Elyse Member
since 2000-04-16
Posts 414Apex (think raleigh) NC |
oh my ma my my my! this is why im glad i was born speaking english and never had to learn it new. too confusing. ok. so here is my contribution. leaf - to flip through, as a magazine leaf - something that grows on trees leaves - many somethings that grow on trees leaves - exits a room who made up this language anyway??? luv Elyse |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Elyse - I'm with you in that boat - I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must be for people to learn as a second language!  Good examples!-AND- I have another one!!! Philip - Kinda boring, stuck-up, arrogant (British) sounding name. *yawn* PhiLLip - Good, strong, AMERICAN sounding name. Fit for a spry young lad. *so-so* Phiip - Hip, with the times, not afraid to wear his underwear on his head kind of guy. Willing to take a risk, and doesn't worry about the rain streaking his mascara. Now that is the kinda guy I dig! |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
ok, so here is my contribution..... saw- handtool with a toothed blade for cutting wood saw- Past- of see ruck- main body of competitors ruck- make or become creased bank- sloping gound beside a river bank- establishment for depositing, withdrawing and borrowing money rare- seldome done, unusual, xceptionaly good rare- meat cooked so that inside it is still red... oooeeey! Maree |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Be skeered...be very skeered Fleet - large contingency of ships, perching above the perch and other fish, usually pretty prettily on the water... Fleet - of foot...something both Cwis and Phiip should think about being... which brings me to feet Feet - an outdated American maysuring system. Feet - of which I am sure both Cwis and Phiip have smelly ones... OH K + you are right of course, as usual! - something Phiip forgot to add. OK - Something he may well be after a short trip to the hospital... HO-K - the voice of resolution K uses when preparing to wrestle and kick butt... HO-K DO-K - as in pah...in your dreams Cwis... Biweekly - a sad mistake... Biannual - passable... Bipandc - a new concept... K[This message has been edited by Severn (edited 10-09-2000).] |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Oh and just for you Cwissy... Hostel...something that DOES exist in America, which is not synonymous with a hotel... Hostile...never I... |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
first we'll just dispose of the frivolity: Phiip ........ FINE .. if it gives the terrible twosome thrills to corrupt my hitherto unblemished name who am i to complain - i mean it's only MY name after all .. oh and by the way, you missed:FILLIP -something tending to arouse or stimulate ~smirk~ BIPAND(C) - please tell me this a typo and that you actually meant it to be a sexually ambiguous black and white bear-like mammal normally found in China eating bamboo shoots next, i need to mention that the thread is drifting off course: if you go and examine sharon's original post you will discover that that point she was getting across is that there are SIMILARLY spelled words which are often confused in usage, NOTE "SIMILAR" not identical - the idea is to try and help people write correctly. Everyone knows that "bow" and "bow" have different meanings, but you can't of course tell that I might have (in my thought) used it incorrectly because on paper it looks the same. so we're NOT looking here for words of identical spelling that have different meaning, we are rather looking for words which to the ear SOUND identical (or nearly so) but do in fact have different meanings and spellings...... sooooooooooooo ..... Elyse Maree and (I'm delighted to say ..heh) Lady K need to revisit the exercise - please try harder - heh heh ....I'm rather enjoying this schoolmaster thing ...... by way of a further example: RHYME - correspondence of terminal word sounds RIME - frost, specially that that builds up on the windwards side of objects ie wind-driven granules back to the drawing board you three, quite foolin' around and let's have some serious work here P PS - to LK ..ok i accept - hostel and hostile are a good example ..two more please [This message has been edited by Poertree (edited 10-10-2000).] |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Now that Sir Philip has the schoolmaster's ruler out to smack some hands, I would like to encourage everyone to add to the list. |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
We - "Us," as in everyone but Phiip and HoK. Wee - small, insignifigant, as in Phiip and HoK. [This message has been edited by Christopher (edited 10-10-2000).] |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
quote: Phiip, I've been blemishing it for a long time... though not as long as HoK has... |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
extremely amusing christopher (lol- it was actually ) ...... but now i think its time to do a deal - how's about a mild form of ribaldry in this forum reserving the real action for the Alley where we can't frighten people away (coz they are all weirder than us in there...lol) ...... and meanwhile why don't you exert your undoubted manly charm, wit, and persuasiveness to try and encourage a few brave souls into this den ...marilyn would be a good start seeing as she seems to be thirsting for punishment ..er i mean learning (oops ..i said i'd be good didn't i..) ..i look forward to a forum full of intelligent replies when i wake up tomorrow ..  |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
ok *grumble grumble* I'll try to be good... mind you, that's difficult for me (seriously), but I'll TRY, Philip. See, I can do it. Chris |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Thyme : herb with aromatic leaves Time : continued progress of existence Prey : animal that is hunted or killed by another for food Pray : to say prayers dear : beloved or a form of address deer : four-hoofed grazing animal wine : fermented grape juice as an alcoholic drink whine: complaining/wail wail : high pitched cry of pain or grief whale: a large marine mammal sell : exhange or be exchanged for money / stock for sale cell : small room in a prison or monastery / vessel containing electrodes for current-generation or electrolysis sale : temporary offering of goods at reduced prices sail : piece of material extended on rigging to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship [This message has been edited by Dark Angel (edited 10-11-2000).] |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
k the punster is here or hear i dunno... hope these havent been used deer shot by dear me Romans and Russians got roamin hands and rushin fingers. Remington Steele likes to steal all the women with plates of steel in their heads yuh yuh. Yuh Yes You      ... etc |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
OKOKOK the punster is back and he has decided it is time to really str----e----tch it with these play on words Seymour Buns was always looking to see more buns! Groaner Really as yuh and Real "e" as in the opposite of that prankster False "e" That was bad but there's more! Raunchy somethin icky as opposed to that poor guy Ron Chee (he never had much of a chance in life with that name anyway) OKOK you say you want more! How bout some English Forum poets then? Poertree a fine poet from the lil island there where i heard Dipsy, Tinky Winky, La la, and Poe ...er... treed a mountain lion...o my! Christopher a kind caring poet of a guy but have you seen (gasp) Chris' toe fur aaaaaaah!!!! Kamla i drink with jam and bread. So one day i was wanting to film my kids play... i got out my handycam. Lalalalalala I sang as i got it out of my bag. Ok i have been told this is not how you pronounce it but Severn and wahla to cut an "N" in half sever "N" remember folks i am a trained punster professonal. okokok hats tipped off again to poor Philip whose i heard face got smashed by the door gettin slammed in it. for days he will feel lip puffiness Maree maree maree i am sorry miss aka DA a fine poet in her own write but i could only think of the DA's office where you sit and say i am guilty of bad puns okokok are you steel with me hear a few moor: neato as opposed to neat "O" not an "O" i am likely to make amends i will make for these bad puns can i get some Amens! Lastly, kind of the opposite I am going to say two words with exact meanings but sound differently oooooooo wayoutwalt giggolo [This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (edited 10-11-2000).] |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
~speechless with loling at Walt~ |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
But there is one problemo Walty IT ISN'T CAM LA - grrrrrrrrrrrr... YOU know this...you know this... sigh... when will the miscreant Americans learn... think Calm: my anti-personality trait lol... |
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Poertree Senior Member
since 1999-11-05
Posts 1359UK |
OMIGAWDDDDDDD wot have yew hand eye started hear SHAR HON ...??????? DA.... you swamped me luv Elyse.... ou est vous? Sev hun .... waiting...la di da Waltee who let you outta your cage?? That was really a wonderful exibition of cunning stunts - and don't whatever ya do try saying that when inebriated (ok ok chris ..i know know what i said being good now )A TRACTOR ATTRACT HER SOROS - rich stock deal and investor SORE ASS - (Sharon hand me the ruler please...heh) ok ...before i get expelled ...i'm outta here. P |
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Elyse Member
since 2000-04-16
Posts 414Apex (think raleigh) NC |
oh my goodness gracious. what is going on in here. the punning is out of control OUT OF CONTROL! i wish i was as good at this as all y'all, but apparently, according to philip, i do it WRONG! no, but i am a glutton for punishment, so i shall try again.i pared a pair of pears today. thats all i got for now. hope thats good enough for certain demanding persons who shall remain nameless... luv Elyse |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
ROFLMAO! VERY good walt!!! Elyse - You're doing perfectly fine. If you want a hint: The best way to deal with Philip is to ignore him. GOOD examples!!! Philip - *shaking head* |
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