Confused words. 2014.
bore / boar / boor — A bore is a boring or tiresome person: Jasper is such a bore when he talks about his cats! A boar is a male pig: Wild boars abound in this forest. A boor is an unrefined, vulgar person: What a boor Guy was to get drunk at the wedding and … Confused words
bore / boar / boor — A bore is a boring or tiresome person: Jasper is such a bore when he talks about his cats! A boar is a male pig: Wild boars abound in this forest. A boor is an unrefined, vulgar person: What a boor Guy was to get drunk at the wedding and … Confused words
Bore — Recorded as Bore, Boar, Boor, and the very rare Bor, this is an interesting English surname which has nothing whatsover to do with being either a South African Dutchman, or a person of boring characteristics. It is however either a medieval… … Surnames reference
Boor — Recorded as Bore, Boar, Boor, and the very rare Bor, this is an interesting English surname which has nothing whatsover to do with being either a South African Dutchman, or a person of boring characteristics. It is however either a medieval… … Surnames reference
Boar — Recorded as Bore, Boar, Boor, and the very rare Bor, this is an interesting English surname which has nothing whatsover to do with being either a South African Dutchman, or a person of boring characteristics. It is however either a medieval… … Surnames reference
Rhotic and non-rhotic accents — English pronunciation can be divided into two main accent groups: a rhotic (pronounced /ˈroʊtɨk/, sometimes /ˈrɒtɨk/) speaker pronounces a rhotic consonant in words like hard; a non rhotic speaker does not. That is, rhotic speakers pronounce /r/… … Wikipedia
English-language vowel changes before historic r — In the phonological history of the English language, vowels followed (or formerly followed) by the phoneme /r/ have undergone a number of phonological changes. In recent centuries, most or all of these changes have involved merging of vowel… … Wikipedia
