Saturday, October 10, 2015

Soundalikes: made and maid, great and Grate for comedy, puns

I made a list of soundalikes for the maid.
Puns often use soundalikes. If you are writing comedy, use lists of soundalikes. Great for humour. So long as they don't grate on your ear.

ah, are
Bare, bear
fare, fair
grate, great
heard, herd
hoard, horde
kneed, need
lead, led
made, maid
oh, owe
passed, past
read, red
road, rode
steal, steel
there, their, they're
wait, weight
which, witch

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, winner of humorous speech competitions.

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