"deaf" and "death".

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Do you ever confuse these two words? I've seen them confused on the internet. People writing "tone death" when they mean to write "tone deaf".

True story time. When I was a kid, there was a deaf girl living down the road. I found this out when my mum was trying to explain why she'd talk a bit differently to the rest of us and I blurted out "She's dead?" I must have thought she was some kind of zombie or something!

Never noticed people doing that. But it wouldnt surprise me that there are folks on the Net that dumb.

I use the wrong one sometimes when typing due to my dyslexia but I always know which word it is when I hear it & read it cuz of the context.

Not in writing, but in speech, yes.

When I try to say "death", it comes out as "deaf" because of my speech impediment.

happens to me too as I pronounce "th" as "f" example would be Fumb instead of Thumb, fick instead of thick.

That's how I end up pronouncing "th" words too. They either come out sounding like a "d" or an "f".

TH & PH sound like F's to me whenever I hear em.

I used to say "Are you death?" because that is what it sounded like to my ears whenever kids would ask me that or my mother.

I was out on one of my lengthy strolls a few nights ago, thoughts drift into my mind and much of the content revolves and bounces around word games, I started thinking how the word 'pool' can be taken in several different ways such as a game of pool, gather/collect and a body of water.. then it went onto stream and torrent and then into channel and then into depths... words are an endless exchange of energy!

^ isn't english marvelous?

they can be a bit hard to distinguish when you only start hearing at the middle of the sound, and you don't manage to catch the beginning of it. they're both voiceless fricatives made in the dental reigon.

same goes for "m" and "n", personally.

"ph" and "th" as "f" for me as well, as a leftover from an age of an incapability to pronounce any english.