Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth

Author:Gyles Brandreth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241352656
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

The Americanised version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone refers to ‘English muffins’ instead of ‘crumpets’. It has come to this.

7. A Bad Spell of Whether

Whether the weather be fine,

Whether the weather be not,

We must weather the weather

Whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not.

‘Whether’ and ‘weather’ are homophones. They are heterographs, too.

Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different meanings. (‘Homophone’ derives from the Greek homo-, meaning ‘same’, and phone, meaning ‘voice’.) Heterographs are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. (Hetero- meaning ‘different’ in Greek; graph meaning ‘writing’.) Here are a dozen more homophonic heterographs:

aural — oral

bald — bawled

band — banned

bard — barred

bear — bare

for — fore — four

here — hear

pare — pair — pear

raw — roar

there — their

toad — towed

to — too — two

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