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00:00Today we're going to learn about homophones. Homophones are really, really weird. Okay, they're very weird.
00:07Homophones are weird like a cow that works in the city. You know, that just doesn't happen.
00:12I mean, it's just like, what? So many questions. Why is this cow here? Who taught this cow how to wave?
00:18Why is this cow wearing clothes? Weird. I don't know if you believe me. Really, homophones are weird.
00:26I mean, they are weird. I mean, really, really weird. Okay, I know I'm repeating myself. You need to
00:35understand these are really weird words and we're going to show you why. You see, homophones are
00:42words that sound the same but have different meanings and spelling. Another way of saying that
00:50is homophones are words that sound the same but look different and don't mean the same thing.
00:57They're kind of tricky, weird words that they sound the same but they look different and they don't
01:03mean the same thing. Okay, I think you're ready. It's time to meet the homophones. We want to give
01:09you some examples of these words that sound the same but they look different and they don't mean
01:14the same thing. Homophones, same sound, different spelling and meaning like nose and nose. They sound
01:26the same, don't they? The exact same. They're homophones because they've got very different
01:31meanings, don't they? The first nose is a part of your body. The second nose is when you have
01:37knowledge about something, something in your mind. He knows what homophones are. They have the same
01:44sound but different spelling and different meaning. It's tricky, isn't it? It's a little weird. Homophones.
01:52Homophones, same sound, different spelling and meaning like eight and eight. They sound the exact
02:02same, don't they? But one is a number, right? This first eight is a number. The second eight has to do
02:09with eating. The baby ate the watermelon. Eight and eight are homophones.
02:18Homophones, same sound, different spelling and meaning like hey and hey. They sound the exact
02:27same but they're homophones, aren't they? Because the first hey means hello and it's spelled
02:32differently. Hello. Hey. It's an informal way of saying hello just like this friendly little bird
02:39is doing right now. Hey. The second hey is food for horses. They sound the same but they have
02:48different spelling and different meaning. Hey and hey are homophones. We want to make sure you
02:57really understand this. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings
03:04and spelling like buy and buy. This first buy means near or close to. The photographer that
03:14took this picture was by the grasshopper. The second buy means to purchase. You do this at
03:22stores, don't you? This person is buying an apple. Buy and buy. They're homophones.
03:33Here's our final example of homophones. Flu and flew. This first flu isn't very fun at all.
03:42It's a type of sickness. The second flu is a lot more fun. This is a seagull that is flying. The
03:50seagull flew over the ocean. Flu and flew. They sound the exact same but they are very different
03:59words, aren't they? They are homophones. Now this is something crazy. Did you know there are over
04:077,000 homophones in the English language? Over 7,000 and that's why we can't talk about all of
04:15them here. There are homophones that you probably know that we didn't have time to cover today,
04:21but there are over 7,000 of them in the English language.
04:28Hey, can you think of any other homophones? Maybe after you watch this video, try to come up with a
04:36list of homophones that you might know that we didn't cover in this video. They're a lot of fun.
04:42They're words that sound the exact same, but they have different meanings and different spelling.
04:48Okay, maybe after this video you can give that a shot. Thanks for watching this video with us. We
04:54hope you learned a lot and we hope you had a little bit of fun too. Okay, cow, show us your magic trick.
05:02Actually, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.