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Originally Posted by crich70
I can understand that. English is a very difficult language to master if not born to it with all the borrowed words and words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently i.e. wound and wound. One is an injury and the other the past tense of wind, as in he wound the clock. Then there are words like you're and your not to mention there, their and they're.
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I did enjoy that even your explanation of wound (was painful) vs wound (around my finger) required the use of wind (it clockwise) vs wind (was blowing), and also tense (was past) vs tense (as a frightened cat), and even clock (was on the mantle) vs clock (over the noggin). You can just keep getting deeper and deeper into the mire, don't you just love language!