Do you know any words you would spell differently but would pronounce the same?
For example seize and seas.
Do you know any others?
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I know a few homophones:
Deer, dear.
Sent, cent, scent.
Pie, pi.
to, too, two
Mary, merry, marry
flue, flu, flew
ant-aunt
for-four
bite-byte
allowed-aloud
ate-eight
base-bass
by bye buy bi-
new knew
your you’re (ewer)
maid made
@Ivan I knew there was another one, I am just too tired to think today.
@chyna Their they’re. Weir gest quidding ewe.
basal basil
Friar fryer
hour our
Any word imported from France that ends in -ioux or an -oux
It should be Sue not Sioux or rue not roux (for cooking Cajun gumbo – love it!).
What’s up with that “X” anyway? If you don’t pronounce it, don’t use it.
grate, great
I use to get grateful wrong all the time. I wasn’t till I realize it comes from gratitude that I understood.
I thought grate was meaning the object grate or to shred something.
Great as in wonderful made more sense to me. So greatful seemed right.
Suite and sweet
edit—- > if you are in North Carolina it would
Suite and SUIT They do it all the time for furniture and rental property.
A fly and a flea were caught in a flue.
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
So together they flew through a flaw in the flue.
– Elementary school writing exercise.
@BoBo1946 Yes I really must “imagine” that later tonight…........(shouts to wife) oh darling, are you doing anything later? ;¬}
Strait – Straight
Rite – Right
@Nullo You’re quoting a classic limerick that goes, “A flea and a fly in a flue / Were imprisoned, so what could they do? / Said the… / Said the… / So they flew through a flaw in the flue.” Gotta get the meter right…
Know No—Eye I cant can’t think of any..
@worriedguy but I love those X’s, they make language visually interesting…
@max_gutierrez Thanks for your answers. Where I live the ant would be pronounced differently to aunt with the a in aunt being elongated
@marinelife Here in the UK basal would sound be spoken with the emphasis on the first a. Thanks for answering
@worriedguy Great answer, totally agree with you :))
@Nullo Just love your limerick!!
@ETpro LOLL, thanks
@ucme Naughty, naughty :))))
Thanks for all your answers. I am going to add a couple of my own
Bear bare
Pair pear
read reed
read red
dyed died
reign rein
pane pain
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