Some Wordplay

Gasoline Alley does this occasionally. No lesson.

Well, these are all homonyms, though some make a distinction:

• homographs—words that have the same spelling
• homophones—words that have the same pronunciation

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What she says:

They asked what the options are, not which option they preferred, so I think the correct conjunction is “and.”

I think it’s interesting that the cartoonist treated the word “family” as a plural. that’s more common in England than in the US.

Remember what a palindrome is? It’s something in writing that reads the same backwards and forwards. Here’s a comic about that:

Louie is the dog, but you probably figured that out.

Which do you prefer? The orange critter is an octopus with awfully short tentacles.

Or should I say tentacloi?

Last word in the first line of the first panel. Which is it? people should? people would? people could? people had?

You gotta rely on context, I guess.