2014-08-08 Communication: English trivia

Handout:
1 NOON
2 close, lead, tear, live, wind, row, minute
3 brunch (breakfast+lunch), motel (motor+hotel)
4 laser, radar
("acronym" technically means you pronounce the initials as a word)
5 casanova, saxophone, boycott
6 rhythm (tsk)
7 redivider (also "radar" and "noon") racecar
8 Was it a car or a cat I saw?, A man a plan a canal-Panama.
9 boot, party
10 It is a pangram: it uses all the letters of English.
11 the of and to a in that I it was is he for you on with as be bad but they at his have not
12 I
13 forty, although, Wednesday
14 rhyme (-et ending), base form, irregular: bet/get/set
15 200,000 or more
16 Between 12,000 and 30,000
17 In an English examination Susana, where Mohammed had had "had had", had had "had". "Had had" had had the teacher's approval.

The only time "incorrectly" is not spelled "incorrectly" is when it's spelled incorrectly.