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It might be vivid, if I could decipher it.
Hopiakuta 23:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
He died at 40 odd years, in his berth (of a ship? of a train?), someone told the sexton who then rang the bell.
Homonyms in use are "berth/birth", "tolled/told". It doesn't make sense to say that "his death which happened in his birth", so the listener has to do a mental retalk. It makes a little more sense to say the sexton "told" the bell, but again we have to do the double take and translate it as "tolled" (announcing his death).
Jarich 13:45, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
sore/saw
In some places, these are indeed two words that are pronounced the same. However, people with the "Chicago" or "no accent" do not pronounce these words the same. Saw is not said with an "r" sound in it. This example should be eliminated to avoid confusing some users. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.121.65.30 ( talk) 15:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC).
Homonyms - Due Ewe No Witch Whirred Qualifies
I have removed the following.
These are not homphones for everyone. Jimp 00:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I feel that these words belong on the list. Despite differences in accents and dialects, these words are pronounced a certain way by a majority of the speakers or enough of them to make these words universally recognizable.
I am confused by "homophones", also, including words with the same spelling ("rose" being the example used in this article)because I thought that homophones were only words that had different spellings, different meanings, and the same way of saying it. Is there a separate category that "rose" and "rose", "plant" and "plant", etc. would fall under? I am hoping that there is a word that we can call these words.
For myself I would not have (carrot) and (carat) as the end of the words sound different carrot ends with the sound of ot as in otter and the word carat ends with the sound at as in atom, attack or attention I am British and accept that other people from different countries could pronounce the words differently than I do but as the language is called English and I would expect the word to be pronounced the same as where the language came from. Poppyann2012 ( talk) 06:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
As previous users have pointed out, what are homophones to some are not homophones to others. I think it is necessary to organise the list based on accents.
"Saw" and "sore" are only homophones to non-rhotic speakers.
A pronounciation key should also be included when discussing homophones.
Socrates17 22:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
71.235.66.254 02:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Be careful with the external links: None of them provides a flawless list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.219.109.210 ( talk) 11:58, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
There is no way fool and fuel are homophones. (unsigned)
User:71.235.66.254, go to England or Australia, and everyone you meet will pronounce buoy the same a boy (male child).
DaveDodgy (
talk) 16:46, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Happen to be quite drunk but am resonably shore (lol) that there is a mistake on the venn diagram; i think tire (car wheel) should be tyre (car wheel). (unsigned)
I agree, tire is a poor example of a Homonym as in British English it is a Heterograph. In US English tire does indeed mean both a car wheel and fatigue, but in British English tire only means fatigue, instead a car wheel is a tyre. Another example of this is US English check/check, British English check/cheque : verify/form of payment. ( LittleGreenGirlFromMars ( talk) 17:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC))
The link http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/multinyms.html in English section of "Number of homophones" section isn't valid anymore. This will require to reword the whole section. Should it be removed or different list be found (I couldn't find any). Dwellee ( talk) 15:03, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Think the beer-can/bacon "in certain accents" is too much of a stretch? [1] ― cobaltcigs 01:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
We should discuss whether tonal languages such as Chinese regard otherwise identical syllables with different tones as homophones, and the cultural role of homophone wordplay. -- Daviddwd ( talk) 20:44, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Carat and carrot? -- 179.26.220.123 ( talk) 02:46, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
On that venn diagram, where would aluminium/aluminum fall? Unlike sulfur/sulphur there is a difference in pronunciation but it’s tiny. It doesn’t seem right to say “‘aluminium’ is a synonym for ‘aluminum’” because they’re really the same word.
Other examples similar: spelled/spelt, burned/burnt, &c. of these forms of past tense. 2601:1C2:5000:8CC7:9889:D50D:1D5C:B135 ( talk) 02:17, 18 March 2024 (UTC)