The number 8

It's a homophone! It is probably one of the happiest homophones that exist. Whenever I think that I ate 8 of anything I bet I am in a food coma(I guess because I only eat big things. Not grapes or anything like that).


They are spelled so differently as well. ATE and EIGHT. Ate looks like how it should be spelled and eight looks more like this phonetically eh-I-guh-te. This sounds more like a Native American name. Chief Eight(eh-I-guh-te). I don't know why they couldn't of just had it be a homonym. No one would have every had the number 8 and having eaten in the past mixed up in a sentence. I will illustrate my point.


I ate apples, ate of them(oh no that didn't help my cause). Ate people are zombies(people who are eaten become zombies, this really is a problem). Ok, well I guess we should just never spell out 8. Always just write the number, no matter what the grammatical rule is.