In today’s lesson, Alexander was tasked with picking one homophone pair that is one letter different from among five pairs and writing a sentence using one or both words of the pair. This is the third or fourth time I asked him to do the exercise. Today and on the previous occasions, I included the pair than/then. Every time, including today, he repeated than and then and changed the words into land and lend and laughed and laughed. Each time I said no, not land and lend. But … today, after the lesson was over, I realized that the rapscallion is smarter than I. There are 60 years of education/experience between us. What? Than and then do not sound the same; they are not homophones! He picked here/hear.
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