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10 most confusing Homophones

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As in my last post, I have described the top 10 common phobias. Most of my readers liked those phobias. In today's post, I am going to describe Homophones . Homophone often causes trouble and creates a lot of confusion for learners of English. So let's start by taking a closer look at the meaning of word homophone . What is homophone?  Those words which share the same pronunciation but have different meaning are called homophones. This word derives form the Greek, where ' homo '- means same and the root ' phone '- means sound . So the words "flower" and "flour" are a homophone, as are "two" and "to". There are thousands of homophones but I'm going to describe 10 most common homophones which mostly left us puzzled!! 1. cell/sell Cell(noun): - jail  जेल The prisoner was locked up in a cell . Sell(verb) :- to offer something for people to buy बेचना He sells vegetables for a living. 2. Die/d...

Is your fear of LOVE a PHOBIA?

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Hello, my readers, in my previous post we have learned   words that described the nature of the person .Today  I'm going to write about top 10  phobias Now question is that what is a phobia? How many types of phobia exist? A phobia is a very strong fear or hatred that you can not explain, the word itself comes from the Greek word phobos , which means fear or horror . More than a hundred types of phobias exist all over the world but today I'm going to describe Most common phobias  among people. Let's start with the first phobia which is quite famous among the young generation. 1.  Philophobia(फिलोफोबिया) :- The fear of falling in love with someone who doesn't love you back(fear of love) प्यार करने से डर Many teenagers in India are suffering from philophobia . 2. Aerophobia(एरोफोबिया) :- The fear of flying उडाने से डर Since Herry has an aerophobia , he has never flown to Paris. 3. Gamophobia(गेमोफोबिया) :- The fear of marriage शादी कर...