ODDS AND ENDS

1. Can you use the three words below as homophones to begin common phrases?

PAPER

BACON 

LETTUCE

 

2. What do the following words have in common?

  

JOB

POLISH 

AUGUST

TANGIER 

READING

 

3. What do the following words and phrases have in common?

 

PHENOMENON

SESAME SEEDS 

JUMPED OVERBOARD 

WORLD SERIES GAME 

THERE ARE NO WORDS

 

Answers:

 

1. PAPER VIEW (Pay per)

    BACON IN THE SUN (Bakin')

    LETTUCE PRAY (Let us)  

 

2. Words that are pronounced differently when they are not capitalized.

 

3. Each word of phrase conceals the name of an American city"

    pheNOMEnon (Alaska)

    sesAME Seeds  (Iowa)

    jumpeD OVERboard (Delaware)

    world sERIEs game (Pennsylvania)

    there aRE NO words (Nevada)

 

Credits:

1: Hanh Huynh

2. Ken Jennings

    Kennections

3: Kathy Lowden