A different perspective…

As a mother of 3 young children, I am realizing that the English language has a lot of instances of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have totally different meanings.  I know there’s a technical term for these words, but I forget. 

So, a couple months ago, we were in the car and Reilly spots a red truck.  He emphatically tells me to look at the red truck.  I asked him if he knew what kind of truck it was.  Nope.  I told him it was a tow truck.  Oh, he says as if he knew all about tow trucks.

I asked him if he knew what tow trucks are used for.  Yeah, he says (still struggling with his “Rs”).  “It’s for when ya bwake ya toe, ya put it onna toe twuck.”