1972
Fun with Words
January 1972


“Fun with Words,” Friend, Jan. 1972, 23

Fun with Words

The answer to each question sounds exactly like the word in italics, but is not spelled the same. See how many correct answers you can give.

1. What sounds like heal but is a part of your foot?

2. What sounds like sale but is a part of a boat?

3. What sounds like bare but is an animal?

4. What sounds like doe but is used to make bread?

5. What sounds like fair but is what you give the bus driver to pay for your ride?

6. What sounds like blew but is a color?

7. What sounds like break but is used to stop a moving car?

8. What sounds like scene but is what we have done with our eyes?

9. What sounds like ate but is actually a number?

10. What sounds like stare but is a step?

11. What sounds like knows but is a part of you face?

12. What sounds like tide but is something that means fastened?

13. What sounds like sew but means the planting of seeds?

14. What sounds like sun but is a father’s boy?

15. What sounds like tail but is a story?

16. What sounds like won but is a number?

Answers:

  • (1) heel, (2) sail, (3) bear, (4) dough, (5) fare, (6) blue, (7) brake, (8) seen, (9) eight, (10) stair, (11) nose, (12) tied, (13) sow, (14) son, (15) tale, (16) one