HOMONYMS
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
YOU'RE "DEAD" ON
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
200

A serving dish & to throw towards the pins

Bowl

200

A silencer on an English automobile is one of these to us yanks

muffler

200

Arachnophobia

spiders

200

Comedy style in which the face shows no expression

deadpan

200

The misty fog left behind by President Rutherford B.

a Hayes haze

400

Track of turbulence behind a boat & to cease to sleep

wake

400

While cave exploring in Cornwall, if a Brit offers to hand you a torch, it's one of these devices

flashlight

400

Pharmacophobia

drugs

400

A person who is almost identical to another

dead ringer

400

The semicircular path taken by a biblical boat

an ark arc

600

The tilt of an aircraft when turning & the land alongside a river

bank

600

To put something into the boot in Britain isn't to put it into your shoe but into this part of your car

trunk

600

Chronophobia

time

600

A period of silence during a radio broadcast

dead air

600

Picard's favorite, flavored with bergamot.

earl grey

800

A lively folk dance & a cylinder on which film is wound

reel

800

You might get a lift in Liverpool if you know a lift is one of these

elevator

800

Nyctophobia

darkness or night

800

Slang for paper currency

dead presidents

800

One who carries luggage or cargo for others

porter

1000

A sharp protruding edge & a fit of emotion, like a crying one

a jag

1000

If your British sweetie says you need braces, she doesn't mean items for your teeth but these for pants

suspenders

1000

Kinesophobia

movement

1000

Rhyming term for something directly in front

dead ahead

1000
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