The Book of Spells and Misspells

characters for HSI pronounced in only one tone, about a man named Hsi who plays with a rhinoceros in a creek, and it attacks him.

Here are some classic English homofoneries: A hansom buoy flu down the rode to meat a suite fare made. He was a cole-mynah and she was a cellar of muscles. His hew was pail, butt he grue boulder and side, ‘Owe, deer won, aye knead ewe sew! Eye can knot weight until hour bridle our when wee prey at the alter. The belles will peel. Then we wood sale strait aweigh in grate stile four a cruse two sea awl the pieceful aisles and eyelets over the see. Pleas let us steel aweigh!’

This one is easier: Notice for a fancy dress party The class can send a letter with a present for everybody who takes part to make sure there will be fair shares. It might even be just as well to step round the side with a change of dress in case there may be a light fall of hail on the way back.

Deliberate confusions to try to read aloud quickly: Does do not buck but a buck does.

My jaw was number after a number of injections.

They were not content with the content of the memo.

The dump will refuse refuse.

The minute was minute and took a minute.

The row of rowers had a row.

The wind made us wind up the window.

The wound was wound with a bandage.

Can a sow sow, or a sewer sew a sewer?

It was not their object to object to the object.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

The soldiers desert in the desert.

Those present will present a present to him presently.

The dove dove down.

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