What's in a Name? (3)

Sometimes, names can hide special meanings. The names below could be realistic Anglo-Saxon names. These names hide real words, which are defined by the rest of the sentence. See if you can figure out the real word.

1. Allie Bye has a good excuse for not being there.

2. Cindy Kate has formed a group to promote her cause.

3. Dennis Zen lives here.

4. Hillary Yes is extremely funny. 

5. Holly Daze enjoys having the day off work to celebrate the festivities. 

6. Hugh Morris tells funny jokes

7. Izzy Lee is capable of doing things without a problem.

8. Perry Less puts himself into dangerous situations

9. Ray Morse regrets some things he's done and said. 

10. Rick O'Shea gets you on the rebound.

11. Manny Quinn stands perfectly still without even blinking.

12. Ms. Elena Yes doesn't fit inside a specific category

13. Mr. Ease always keeps us in suspense.

14. Yvonne Doe can be very contrary!

Witches Thee Homophone? (4)

You can never get enough of homophones! Here’s the fourth installment of Witches Thee Homophone? (Which is the Homophone?)! Here are more non-sense sentences using homophones! As you may already know, homophones are two or more words that are spelled differently but are pronounced the same. For example:

oar, or, ore

poor, pore, pour

1.           Aisle bee dammed!

2.           Dam ewe awl!

3.           Eye cents you're presents.

4.           Flecks you're mussels!

5.           Tease Anne Auntie Occident.

6.           Haze four hoarse is!

7.           Martial arts inn dyer straights!

8.           Cokes hymn two lone sum doe!

9.           Eh kneed too no bases

10.       Thee none war address two thee bawl.

11.       Eyebrows threw sails inn thee maul won thyme eh weak.

You can find the homophone sentences that make sense in the comments below:

The Fortune Cookie (2)

In Chinese restaurants in the United States, it's standard to receive fortune cookies with your bill [1]. A fortune cookie is made from a round, flat piece of dough [2] that is folded over [3] in half and bent [4], like in the picture below. It's sweet and crunchy. 

Each fortune cookie has a slip of paper [5] inside with a proverb, a piece of advice or a fortune [6] written on it, hence [7] the name, fortune cookie. On my last visit to an American Chinese restaurant, I received the following fortunes: 

The sentences in these fortunes don't make sense [8]. How do you think they should be  written? The answer is in the comments below.

[1] cuenta, [2] masa, [3] plegado, [4] doblado, [5] papelito, [6] predicción, [7] de ahí, [8] tener sentido

Dead Trees Sign

During the past Spring Break, I was walking along a path in the mountains of the Aran Valley in the Pyrenees, when I came across this educational sign. There's a typographical error in the English translation. Can you figure out what's wrong with it? 

"Dead trees area a very important nutritional source
of food for many insects and birds."

The answer's in the comments below.