English, the language of misunderstanding.
As Steve Martin said, "those French.........they have a different word for everything"
Well in our English, we have many different words for the SAME thing, lol.
And some words sound the same but are spelled different and mean different things, and some words are spelled the same but sound different, and some words are spelled the same, sound the same but the meaning is different
meet and meat
beat and beet
bare and bear
wear and where
I am going to READ this
I just READ this
I went to store and got fresh PRODUCE
Get to work and PRODUCE something
I WOUND a bandage around the WOUND
I went DUCK hunting
I had to DUCK to avoid being hit
It was warm by the FIRE
Pull back slowly on the trigger to FIRE the gun
The boss hated to do it but he had to FIRE the man.