Caroline Taggart

dyed-in-the-wool

German, the language from which English is derived

More than one-tenth of English words are not spelled the way they sound.

eye rhymes, which are words that look alike and perhaps used to rhyme but which, due to shifts in pronunciation, no longer do.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same or differently.

noun has a c and the verb has an s.