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Homophones Entry 1569 / 1605 60-second read

Meat vs. Meet

Animal flesh versus to encounter.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

Let's meat at the cafe.

✓ Correct

Let's MEET at the cafe — MEET means to encounter. MEAT is flesh as food.

The ruleii

MEET = encounter. MEAT = food.

MEET is the verb (meet a friend, meet a deadline). MEAT is animal flesh as food. METE (a third homophone) means to dispense (mete out justice).

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

MEAT to EAT. MEET to grEEt.

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