We’re moving next
to the homophone: a word pronounced the same as another but differing in
meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air. So … contronyms are words that have contradictory meanings (sanctiion = approve and
disapprove; homophones sound alike
but to not mean the same—and often are not spelled the same, either.
1. ait (noun) a little island (Brit.)
2. ate (verb): past tense of eat
3. eight (noun and adjective): the number
between 7 and 9 (duh)
They lived
for years—a private ait—
Where they
had gone for their first date.
And there
they laughed and loved and ate
And had
their children—there were eight.
Their lives
had much to celebrate,
But then
they died (oh, such is Fate!),
But since
they’d both been truly great,
They passed
right through the Pearly Gate—
Without
debate.
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