Can you work it out? *In this case, Washington isn’t the state, but the president—and he died in 1799. It’s useless to send him a telegram because he’s dead.

The quiz below tests your knowledge of those and other tricky pronunciations from various corners of the English language. Many entries are misles: terms whose spelling leaves room for confusion.

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