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Jenoch

(7,720 posts)

7. Your point about thinking while hunting

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 03:21 AM

Jan 2013

certainly is the case. During deer season 2011 I started a collection I know is unique in my family and is not likely a common collection anywhere else either. I started collecting homophones and heteronyms. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but are not spelled the same. Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations. (discussed/disgust) (bass)

My brothers think I'm completely wacked. My wife just smiles when I announce I have thought of another word to add to my collection. (My self-imposed rule is to not look them up until after I have thought of them). So far I have 178 homophones but only 39 of the much more rare heteronyms.

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Hubby got his first doe today. He is pretty excited [View all] demtenjeep Jan 2013 OP

Why? JGK1 Jan 2013 #1

for food demtenjeep Jan 2013 #2

And what weapon would you prefer to be used to hunt with? oneshooter Jan 2013 #5

Congrats! ManiacJoe Jan 2013 #3

haha. We just might do that. demtenjeep Jan 2013 #4

Congrats! Got into deer hunting late in life. No regrets... Eleanors38 Jan 2013 #6

Your point about thinking while hunting Jenoch Jan 2013 #7

An impressive collection. I should have started a hunting journal Eleanors38 Jan 2013 #8