What's your favorite homophone?
I like Maw and Ma.
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What's your favorite homophone?
I like Maw and Ma.
Blew and Blue.
Ass and Ass.
Is that a homophone?
Rye and Rai. :jess:
What's a Homophone? >_>...
No that's just a word with more than one meaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Genji
Two words that sound the same, but spelled differently.
Damn.
Read and Reed.
:(
Alrighty then!
See and Sea.
Pain and Pane.
Pail and Pale.
Pea and Pee.
Lots of P's.
Free and 3. Hey, in a cockney accent they're homophones. Not that I have one, but that's hardly the point.
Maw and Ma are pronounced differently. Unless you have a speech impediment akin to Brian Carper's.
for and four
but and butt
poor and pour
die and dye
:heart:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
Daideo, Irish (Gaelic) for granddad, and Daddy-o.
Брат, Russian for brother, and brat.
Thrown and throne.
Not quite. These two words do not sound the same because the 'a' sound is totally different in both. They are technically spelled the same though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Odaisé Gaelach
There, their.
Everytime I see this thread I think of the Homophobe thread in EoEo and everytime I see that thread I think of "homophones"...
You and ewe.
So and sew. o.o
Haha, I was confused for a while cuz I thought the topic was "favorite homophobes" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
whit/wit
idle/idol
We and Wii, hehe
THE JACKEL
I see my sublimenal message has been revealed:(
Pssy, I used to sit on the bus in kindergarten and try to figure out what the difference was between the word "free" and the number "three". So it's not just cockney.
Maw and ma are pronounced the same! Do I have to record my dad and uncles?:OOOOOOO
Arkansans are usually not reliable authorities on linguistics, Allison.
Gay and gaye (which is an acronym).
Is the bannana phone a homo-phone?:eek:
Maw is pronounced the same as more here :p
Thought and fought as well. I have a London accent and it really annoys my mum because I say bover and fing instead of bother and thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
Rain and Reign!
Tail, tale.
Mail, male.
...uhm kay yah. Evil ails/ales.
two, to, too, 2
Bantam, duck
Lock and Luck.
Marick and fail
Paw, pour, pore and paw. The only 4 one :D
I R TEH BSET.
Look & Luck.
If you want to make it in this game, you gotta have to luck, you gotta have the look.
Paw and paw are the same word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pure Quin14
Hair, hare, hear and here is the only four-way homophone that I know of.
Maw and ma are most certainly different.
It depends on accent. For me hair and hare are the same. So are hear and here. But hair (h-air) and here (hee-ya) aren't the same for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I admit that there are a lot of words that NZ accents say incorrectly - butter should not be said 'bud-duhh' for example, despite that being how I often say it. But that doesn't change the fact that I know how it should be said. Butter. Likewise, hear, hair, here and hare should all be said the same. Accents change a lot, but technically, the words are the same and are therefore a homophone.
WHAT? Hair is nothing like here. At least over hair. :greenie: Here gets a long e sound, hair sounds like hu-AIRQuote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Sex and secs, as in goatsecs.
I and eye
Carrot and karat
pie and pi
foa and kickass.
Or worm and wyrm, which is pretty kickass too.
Tee and Tea! :jess:
Heir and Hair. Or was that said already?
Eye & Aye.
Die & Dye.
Is that a word? If so, you're awesome. Now, let's all learn to count using homophones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
One and won.
Two and to and too. (Bipper)
Three and free. (Psy)
Four and for and fore. (Rikku's Lover)
Five and phive. (Joel and Kentarou)
That's about it.
Except for bow and bough.
In Heir, the H is silent. >.>Quote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
Edit:
But Three has a TH sound at the beginning! Free has an F sound! =OQuote:
Three and Free
Jester, Skyler.
And phonics starts with an F. Get crazy with the cheese whiz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kentarou
If Hair and Here sound the same, then Maw and Ma definitely do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoBPaw and paw are the same word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pure Quin14
Hair, hare, hear and here is the only four-way homophone that I know of.
Maw and ma are most certainly different.
Oddler-- People from Arkansas are generally called Arkansans, despite anything Mark Twain might tell you.
"Ma" only sounds like "maw" with a southern (and by southern, I mean south of the Mason-Dixon line) accent. In reality (a little something I like to call NORTH of the Mason-Dixon line), they are not the same. "Here" and "hair" are most assuredly different, with the word "hair" taking on the sound of the word "air" with an extra "H" sound to begin with, whilst "here" is like the word "ear" with an "H" sound. However, "here" and "hear" are homophones.
In the word "heir," the H is silent. I don't know why, but it is, apparently.
All of these are assumed that you speak English without an accent, which is perfectly possible.
For those of you who don't believe that there are four-way homophones (because none of the ones mentioned thus far are four-way homophones), there is:
Too
To
Two
Tew
"Three" and "free" are not the same; one starts with a "TH" sound, and the other with an "F" sound. I could not find two sounds more unlike the other.
die dye
Way to be condescending to a group of people who happen to live below a certain latitude.
How do *YOU* say Ma and maw? I wasn't aware that the former was in contemporary usage anywhere outside of the Southern United States.
Ohh, no, did I forget to wrap my parentheses in sarcasm tags again? Too bad.
If I could find the symbols for short A and long A, I would post them. But to suffice:
Ma = mah
Maw = ma-uh, but in one syllable
Apparently, people enjoy adding an extra W sound after the former.
Ma can be used a bastardization of Vietnamese (ironically enough, the word for mom), or shorterned from Mama/Mother.
Hey people, bust out the microphones if you're going to post stupid stuff like this:I mean, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Edit: How I would say both ["maw" and "ma"].
Daniel: hair and here do not sound a like. You are crazy.
EDIT: also, maw and ma are also completely different.
You people are crazy.
Listen to Psy. I've even heard someone I worked with say them in exactly the same way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Dialects are freaking great, right? Write?
"Cot" and "caught", only because there are freaks in this world who say those words differently.
I don't have a speech impediment. I had a linguistics professor from Texas who pronounced "sell" and "sill" the same. That's a speech impediment. We watched videos of people from the northeast US who pronounced "cheater" and "cheetah" the same.
You backwoods hick. Cot, hot - caught, bought.Quote:
"Cot" and "caught", only because there are freaks in this world who say those words differently.
khjklhjjgoing and going
oh, by the way... the khjklhjj are silent ;)
Blphckyamek and Bob.
...at least, they are in my buddy Pvohricklorkin's mothershipcountry...