Sound and Sense, 2-45

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. lo-cal (adj.): lower in calories than is usual or standard

2. locale (noun): the place where something happens

It seems at first the best locale

For him and Phil, his good old pal

To just kick back—and eat lo-cal.

And in those mountains they excelled:

They lost much weight (some trees they felled)—

Oh, all their standards they’d upheld.

Of course, there was a grizzly bear

Who ate them both (it wasn’t fair)

But felt unsated—mountain air?

But then  the bear soon realized

The men were thin. He felt chastised.

“Much too lo-cal,” he soon surmised.

And then no longer felt surprised.