Post by Radrook Admin on Jun 9, 2019 5:19:51 GMT -5
English Homophones: Same sound Different Spellings
English has many words that sound the same but are spelled differently because they have different meanings.
When writing or learning English, it's best to know the difference. The spell-checker won't help since it will detect the word as being spelled correctly and will not take context into consideration. Only the humans, such as teachers, employers, manuscript editors, who read your stuff will do that, view it as nonsensical, and evaluate you accordingly. Here is a list of some that will prove useful.
Altar - Alter
Bite - Bight
Blue - Blew
Cell - Sell
Done - Dun - [Dunce]
To-Two-to
Not - knot
Wine - Whine
New - Knew
Hail - Hale
Pale - Pail
Sail - Sale
Wail - Whale
Tail - Tale
Mail - Male
Maid - Maid
Mute - Moot
Sun - Son
His - Hiss
Herd - Heard - [hurt]
Bear - Bare
Stare - Stair
Hair- Hare
Fair - Fare
Where - Wear- Ware
Heel - Heal
Hear - Here
Pear - Pare
Prey - Pray
Know - No
Steel- Steal
Need - Knead
Dew - Due - Do
None - Nun
Bored - Board
Hord - Hoard
Chord - Cord
Sum - Some
Shoe - Shew
Peal - Peel
Pore - [Pour]
Die - Dye
Night - Knight
Feint - Faint
Pain - Pane
Load - Lode
Sole - Soul
Sink - Zink
Sue, sue, Zoo
Been - Bin
Main-Mane
Lane - Lain
Root - Rute
Tune - Toon
So - Sew
Sight- Cite -Site
Toe - Tow
Horse - Hoarse
I - eye
Weather - Whether
Soar-Sore-Swored
Rabbit - Rabid
Wood - Would
Brake - Break
Have - Half
Real - Reel
Ant - Aunt
Wet - Whet
Foul - Fowl
Mow - Moe
Rain - Rein - Reign
Four - For - Fore
Raise - Raze - Race
Hew - Hue
Tied - Tide
While - Wile
Rome - Roam
Poor - Pour
Tick - Tic
Reverend - Reverent
Bored - Board -
Boar -Bore
Serious - Sirius
Sleigh - Slay
Altogether - All Together.
Doze - Dose
Dam - Damn
Grate- Great
Grater - Greater
Below are examples of how different people understand the term homonym.
What are homonyms, homophones, and homographs?
Homonym can be troublesome because it may refer to three distinct classes of words. Homonyms may be words with identical pronunciations but different spellings and meanings, such as to, too, and two. Or they may be words with both identical pronunciations and identical spellings but different meanings, such as quail (the bird) and quail (to cringe).
Finally, they may be words that are spelled alike but are different in pronunciation and meaning, such as the bow of a ship and bow that shoots arrows.
The first and second types are sometimes called homophones, and the second and third types are sometimes called homographs--which makes naming the second type a bit confusing. Some language scholars prefer to limit homonym to the third type.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym