Apparently this reminder is needed.
It is a meme.
English is not the only language with homonyms.
In French if something isn’t functioning properly you say that “il ne marche pas.” Now, in my studies, “marche” means “walk.” So to me that says “it doesn’t walk.” I asked a native speaker about that and they told me, no, that is not what that means.
Wait till you find out about du coup -
Damn. I keep being surprised by how many people take stuff online way too seriously. Good meme, you get my seal of approval
Needs to have a facemorph of Seal (the singer).
Count to two too many times
Through, though, hiccough, slough, bough, and cough don’t rhyme
Who says hiccough
it’s pronounced “hiccup” but some people don’t respect the spelling and write it phonetically.
I’ve never seen it written that way, love to read, was an EMT, went to college, etc… Just saying I missed that somewhere and often saw hiccup, even in EMT educational textbooks.
They are both valid spellings
This I return to my original: who says hiccough? I’m relatively well read and have some exposure to biology and medical professional context, and never saw it that way
what do you mean by “says”? everyone in English says “hik-up”
some people spell it hiccough and others hiccup.
two are proper nouns, so dont count. three mean ‘to close something’ (more or less). one is an animal.
i see really only two homonyms in total.
One isn’t even a proper noun, it’s a massaged initialism:
United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs…
And the wood one looks more like stain to me
For
realseal though.
