Similar sounding words mistaken for each other

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Similar sounding words mistaken for each other.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1805.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Nouvelles Récréations No. 46.

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Filed under Other misunderstandings of words.

1 finer motif beneath it

To cover house with straw. Word for wife is similar, so wife is covered

Filed beside it

Unusual word misunderstood. Strange results Numskull referring to a forgotten name keeps saying "I have lost it." People dive into tank to recover treasure they think he has lost A fool given money to buy something to eat; goes around asking for a thing called "something."

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