Time for more instances of the homophone:
a word pronounced the same as another but differing in
meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
1. liar (noun): a person who
tells lies
2. lier (noun): one who lies
down; one who stays in hiding
3. lyre (noun): a stringed
instrument of the harp class having an approximately U-shaped frame and used by
the ancient Greeks especially to accompany song and recitation
A liar? Oh, of course he was!
A lyre? He often played
because,
A lier, what he often does
Is lie in bed and play that thing
And claim that he wrote everything
That anyone could ever sing.
So: Lier, liar, he played the
lyre
Until his pants, which were on fire,
Consumed him. Then he was a dier.
(But not a Dyer.)
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