Translate the following words into French: glass, towards, worm, and green. (hint: they're all homophones)
The translations are: - glass => verre (it can mean both the container as well as the material, just like in English); - towards => vers; - worm => ver (earthworm => ver de terre); - green => vert (verte for a feminine noun). As mentionned in the question, all are pronounced the same ( [vɛʁ] ) but are spelled differently.
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