Get ready..English words are gaining new meanings hourly. Why worry about site or sight..The site was a sight. Try and explain to a Polish 1st grade English student why 'eight' is spelled so. Eight of us ate at 8 o'clock. Try using actual English pronunciations to speak other written versions of site or sight. Syt, cite, cyt, siet...add some others.

ought, bought, bough, cough, though, through, thought

I can't bear to see a bare bear.

I have no idea why people say English is hard to learn.

I was just going to say that the poster immediately above is doing their best to resurrect it on the "distraction" thread but given the spelling error s/he made on that thread, well.....I'm afraid that "nectar" has gotten a little sour..or is it shopworn?

>coliseum is also correct.

I don't wish to slight, but can you cite the site at which you sighted that?

Morning, Ira.

She did - look at her 10:45 pm and 10:50 pm posts.

My bad! This isn't the ANSWERS thread.

Mary Fran: Did President Bush really say that? That is incredible!

guykb-

You forgot to mention "threw" to go with "through." And how about to, too, and two? Or sew and so? Doe and dough, and Homer Simpson's version, D'oh!
Gotta loves me that English language.

In the just-for-fun department: What word (in English) is pronounced differently when capitalized?

Re: Mary Fran's post on "disassemble." Jon Stewart on the Daily Show explained it this way:
"Mr. President, "dissemble" means "to lie" -- "disassemble" is what we did to Iraq."

PS Betsy, stop wasting time and let's hear about the Italian villa!!

LOL, Marilyn! 'Fraid you're going to have to wait a little longer. Since we returned I haven't had the luxury of a long stretch of time in which to compose a coherent trip report. If inquiring minds want to know, I'll get "a round tuit" ASAP.

Betsy
I give in! what's the answer to your question.

I would give it some thought but I have the attention span of a gnat

Polish/polish
Nice/nice
Reading/reading
and many others like that

Kudos to cmt!

Job/job

Oh, yes, Tedgale, Mr. Bush did indeed use the word "to disassemble," esplaining that it meant "not tell the truth." (The correct word, of course, is "dissemble."

Oh, the humanity!!

Geez! If I'm going to make fun of someone else's misuse of the language, I guess I ought to proofread my posts before sending, so I can tidy up avoid unparralel construction and similar gaffes.

Tangier/tangier

Mary Fran, only on this thread: parallel