Ok, don't know if anyone is going to have any fun with this thread, but occationally we start thinking about it in the IRC channel and it provides a bit of entertainment for a while. I started making a list with a few of my friends 2 summers ago. Each afternoon a few of us would get together and bs and such and toss the frisbee or kick a soccerball around and then later on sit down outside and drink beer all night - one night we got an idea to start up a list of homonyms/phones (not sure what the absolute correct term is). We had a huge list, but then lost it. Basically now I want to see if we can come up with a list of them here on TS just for fun. Here are the rules: 1. No proper nouns. 2. No plurals 3. No English vs Canadian vs American spellings. Actually I want to stick to American spellings only so no extra "u"s like in favourite - just plain favorite will suffice. 4. Try to stay out of specific scientific fields. For example gneiss/nice is one in the geology field. And as much as we'd all like here I'd like to avoid byte/bite. But cache/cash would work since it has a meaning outside of the computing world. Also: Please do not visit websites that have a list and link them here or post a bunch of their words here, that just destroys any fun that can be had by playing this game. Here's somethign to get you started.... ail ale ate eight aunt ant bare bear bee be bite byte blew blue boar bore buy by bye cache cash caught cot chord cord colonel kernel dew do dye die eight ate ewe you eye I fair fare faun fawn flee flea flower flour flue flew for four grate great guerrila gorilla heard herd heir air here hear in inn knead need knew new knight night led lead lite light maid made mail male mite might or ore oar our are paige page pail pale penne penny plane plain pour poor read red rode road role roll sail sale sea see serial cereal soul sole steak stake steal steel sun son tale tail tea tee there their they're through threw tin ten too to two wail whale waive wave weather whether weight wait where wear whet wet whole hole witch which won one would wood wring ring write right
Aw Awe Bade bayed Beaut butte But butt I'll aisle isle Wheel we'll Yore your you're How about some slang? Fat phat?? Or maybe that should be a separate thread:>} Gadzooks!!! I've been EDITED. When you're noticed by the Moderators, you can no longer lurk.
hom·o·phone ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hm-fn, hm-) n. One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling. hom·o·nym ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hm-nm, hm-) n. One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept). at @
Yeh I wasn't sure what it was called and I remember seeing one defination for each that didn't seem to make it clear. That one does. Yeh lets stick with homophones.
