Tuesday, January 1, 2013

farrow, pharaoh

Farrow or farrow means to give birth to a litter of piglets--
The sow with probably  farrow later this evening.
Farrow may also mean the litter of piglets--
He's trying to get a picture of the farrow, out in the barn.

Pharaoh or pharaoh ( rhymes with farrow ) means a king or ruler of ancient Egypt--
The pharaoh ordered  them to provide their own straw for the bricks they made.
The pharaoh had a gold cobra on his crown.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The sow was named Cleopatra, so they named each piglet in the farrow after an Egyptian pharaoh."

Note--"faro" is a card game played by gamblers--
He lost all of his money playing faro, and had to borrow money to get home.
Note # 2--"farro" is a kind of whole wheat usually cooked as cereal--
A nice hot bowl of farro will keep you warm on a snowy day.
Not to be confused with "Faeroe", a group of islands belonging to Denmark--
They stopped at the Faeroe Islands on their way to Iceland.

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