stubble stumble
The man whose face was covered with stubble stumbled on a stone.
Those two words have quite similar spelling but they absolutely have different meanings. These words only differ in one phoneme: b in stubble and m in stumble. In English, stubble and stumble is a minimal pair.
- stubble
- short, stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a while.
- stumble
- trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall
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13-11-19 23:49, 14-02-19 08:25, Yosei