HOMOPHONE OF THE MONTH
“What’s a homophone?” I hear you ask. Well, you’ll already have seen a small selection of homophones if you’ve visited our home page. A homophone is one of two or more words, such as gorilla and guerrilla, which are pronounced the same but differ in meaning or spelling or both. Here’s this month’s example:
navel, naval
“The Spanish Armada was beaten by the full might of the English navel force.”
I never knew the English had so much power in their belly buttons!
The correct version should be:
"The Spanish Armada was beaten by the full might of the English naval force.”
