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Aug 2014
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AEE 172: Homophones to Push Your English...

Lindsay Mcmahon And Michelle Kaplan
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Homophones can be dangerous.

But understanding them can help push your English to the next level.

Today we chat with Tim Torkildson, an ESL blogger who was fired from his job for blogging about homophones!

A homophone is a word that has the same pronunciation as another word, but a different spelling and meaning. Though not all languages have homophones, English has a lot of them.

Come back to our site to get more details on homophones

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