Wednesday, August 1, 2012

wig, whig

Wig or wig means a hairpiece, or an artificial, removable  head of hair--
She shaved her head, but later regretted it and wore a wig.
No one will know it's a wig--really.

Whig or whig ( rhymes with wig ) means a member of a political party now defunct in the United States--
Instead of democrat or republican, people were once whig or tory.
An American whig was someone in favor of independence from England.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"A whig rarely wears a wig, so the man is probably a tory."

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