Game: One letter changes all !
This is a bit of an exercise in vocabulary both English and Spanish.
Some words are often misspelled and have a completely different meaning.
Let's take these:
through - trough (a trevés - abrevadero).
lie - lye (mentira - lejía).
I would like you to write a pair of English or Spanish words that are almost identical except for one letter. Next to it please write the most common Spanish/English meaning.
I'm looking for examples like the above, where the words can be easily confused. Pairs like "train - rain" are not as much fun.
If you can think of Spanish words that work the same way, by all means go ahead and write the Spanish pair, with the English meaning next to them!
Only O N E pair in each post , thanks
333 Answers
Todos vinieron salvo él. / Everyone came except him.
Una salva de doce cañonazos / A twelve-gun salute.
Rallar = to grate, to drive crazy
Rayar = scratch,to bother
No me ralles más, que estoy a punto de rayarme
Stop bothering me I am about to go crazy
Compliment- cumplido
Complement- complemento
El sumiller se sonrió del cumplido cuando el crítico gastronómico le dijo que el vino complementó perfectamente a la comida.
The sommelier beamed from the compliment when the food critic told him that the wine was the perfect complement for the meal.
Style - el estilo
Stile - escalones para pasar sobre una cerca
Pasó por los escalones sobre la cerca con un estilo y una gracia que contradijo sus años.
She stepped across the stile with a style and grace that belied her years.
Shoe - el zapato
Shoo - fuera! o espantar
La mujer intentó espantar la mosca con su zapato.
The woman tried to shoo away the fly with her shoe.
bum / bump
Having a celebrity guest will put bums on seats. / El hecho de tener a un invitado famoso hará que se llene la sala.
The plane landed with a bump. / El avión aterrizó dando un golpe.
aid - la ayuda
aide - el/la asistente, ayudante
Cuando el asistente pidió la ayuda para distribuir las bebidas isotónicas gratis, un estudiante preguntó, ¿"Si la limonada se hace de limones, de que se hace la Gatorade"?
When the aide asked for aid handing out the free sport drinks, a student asked "If lemonade is made from lemons, what is Gatorade made from?"
lacks. verb to lack, noun shortage of something missing. Faltar/carecer
Lax. Careless, slack. Descuidado, permisivo.
he lacks discipline because the teacher is lax
Carece de disciplina porque el maestro es descuidado.
El ajo - garlic
El ojo - eye
Don't mix up the two in your cooking
thyme. Tomillo
Time. Tiempo, momento, hora
To save time, hold the stem of the thyme and pull the leaves downwards. This is quicker than cutting the leaves off the stem
Para ahorrar tiempo sostenga el tallo del tomillo y tire de las hojas hacia abajo. Esto es más rápido que cortar las hojas del tallo.
Corro - Ring / Circle Zorro - Fox
Los granjeros hicieron corro después el zorro robó la gallina. The farmers formed a circle around the fox after he stole the hen.
taut. Adj - tightly controlled, tense, stretched tightly -. Tenso, tirante, firme
Taught. Verb pp. -. Enseñar
Tort. Noun. Agravio, tuerto
Sentence soon!
Coro _ Choir/ Chorus
Moro _ Moor/ Moorish
The moorish choir sang the chorus of the song of the Moors in unison.
El coro morisco cantó el coro de la canción del los moros en unísono.
He’d= he would, multiple translations
Heed- prestar atención a, hacer caso de
They knew he’d heed the warning.
Sabían que iba a hacer caso del aviso.
Miner- minero
Minor- menor
The miner was a minor.
El minero fue un menor.
