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Homophone Corner: Mail and Male



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Answers to Practice Exercises: Mail and Male

(a) Uncle Fred rocked in his chair, chewed on his pipe, and sifted through the day's mail.

(b) "There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano."
(Rebecca West, quoted in the Sunday Telegraph, June 28, 1970)

 

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