Sunday, April 29, 2012

Pair, Pare, Payer, Pear

Pair – two objects.
Pare – cut the peel off, or cut into small slices.
Payer – person who pays.
Pear – world's most overrated fruit.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Afterward & Afterword

-ard – (adv.) time as it extends beyond the end of an event.
-ord – (n.) writing as it extends beyond the end of a story.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Golf & Gulf

What did the square root of sixteen shout while playing golf? "Four!"

An interesting side note on this one: the flags that mark the holes in golf are rectangular – but when people draw them for cartoons or whatever, they're ALWAYS triangular. Seriously, google "golf flag." Every photo that comes up will show a rectangular flag, but every cartoon/illustration will be a triangle. It's bizarre.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Iraq

Homophones, Weakly's first guest blogger! Harrison, my six-year-old partner in homophony, submitted not only a suggestion, but his very own drawing based on the complicated situation of listening to people pronounce the word Iraq. Is it "eh-" or "eye-," "-rack" or "-rock"? There are lots of possible combinations (not to mention quite a few meanings for "rack" – ahem), so I appreciate the help in sorting it out, Harrison. And I enjoyed reinterpreting your drawings in the HW style.