Simlar Sounding Words (Homophones)

[Kelikaku]

Thought this topic might be amusing and interesting:

Ennervating versus innervating.

Anyone else have similar examples?

[60yo]

http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest/m ... -list.html

[Kelikaku]

I tried to email the site, and the email address is dead, but thanks for the link. Very informative, interesting site (if a bit lazy on your part though)!

[60yo]

Well, yea, a bit lazy... Sorry for maybe kind of killing the topic. However, may I suggest looking for homophones in British English that are NOT homophones in US (Australian, Canadian, etc.) English? I promise not to post any links.

For example, in Cockney, 'hat' and 'at' are homophones, and in European Parliament English "We love the Brits!" and "To the hell with the Brits!" are homophones (as is pretty much anything else in English...)

[Corinnebelle]

http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest/m ... -list.html

These are homophones. Great list by the way. Kelikaku is talking about near homophones.

[Corinnebelle]

Ennervating versus innervating.
Anyone else have similar examples?

Illiterate: unable to read
aliterate: able to read but does not like to
alliterate: to use alliteration, the repetition of consonants [often beginning ones] in a sentence

I love alliteration and onomatopoeia and simile. Metaphor and hyperbole.

[Kelikaku]

What about:
weather, whether and wether?

weather - the state of humidity, temperature, wind and precipitation;
whether - a question word to delineate several choices;
wether - a gelded ram.

Does one pronounce them homophonically in England?

[Deleted User 279]

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Here are some more:

Accept - Except

Heroine - Heroin

Review - Revue

Bite - Bight

Gorilla - Guerilla

[trackerwannabe]

What about:
weather, whether and wether?

weather - the state of humidity, temperature, wind and precipitation;
whether - a question word to delineate several choices;
wether - a gelded ram.

Does one pronounce them homophonically in England?

I will occasionally pronounce "whether" as \'hwe-t͟hər\ rather than \'we-t͟hər\; I always use the latter pronunciation for the other two words.
I suspect I am in a small minority in my "wh" pronunciations (which I also sometimes apply to other words—e.g. "when," "where," "while," etc.).
I don't know whether (!) or not it's the same in England.

[Deleted User 114]

English has so many homophones- here are 100 of them!

https://englishgrammarhere.com/vocabula ... omophones/

[4theAEsir]

My Niece fell off a swing at the park last week and told me she had "really hurt her soldier" I think she meant her shoulder. She is only 5 though

[Davey944676]

What about:
weather, whether and wether?...

...Does one pronounce them homophonically in England?

Most British people will pronounce all three identically.

You may hear a few people pronouncing "whether" differently (correctly), but the only examples which jump straight into my head are one particular Scottish radio presenter, and Stewie Griffin from Family Guy.

[dakanga]

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