One of us is a delicate velvet flake drifting from an apple blossom, while the other is a lever your foot pushes to make a ten-speed bicycle speed down the road. We sound identical. What two words are we?
Petal and pedal
'Petal' (a floral leaf on a bloom) and 'pedal' (a foot-operated lever) are homophones.
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