The Goodrums

A friend of a friend took her cat to the groomers for a haircut. She asked for a LINE cut. The cat came back with a LION cut.

My friend was sharing the story with her coworkers. One of her coworkers piped in about how her elementary age daughter was having trouble with grammar lessons in school. She had been studying with her daughter and trying to help her. In the lion – line discussion, she helpfully chimed in that LION and LINE were one of “them there homonyms.”

Only in the deep south (LION and LINE really are pronounced the same by many down here)…