Just ♥ Words—knew

English—what a great language to have fun with!  Below are several homophones, words that sound alike but have different meanings and often spellings (a few liberties taken, I know).  Thanks for this one to my dear friend Gordon Higgins.

Don’t You Just ♥ Words?

gnu | knew | new | nu

Trapped in existential despair, the
new gnu knew he knew nada about nu.

Translation: The young wildebeest realized he had no understanding of the Greek letter N.