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Who can give me words in english that sounds the same in....?
pronunciation but have totally different meanings?
For example:
See and sea
WOW! Thanks to all! 22 answers in 2 minutes.... I think that's a record!
22 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
they are called Homonyms: "...a homonym is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings, and are usually spelled differently..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
piece and peace
pole and poll
meet and meat
here and hear
there and their
here's a bunch more...http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_s...
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- 1 decade ago
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning:
Write, right, and rite.
Close and clothes.
Their, there, and they're.
Week and weak.
Bye and By.
Whole and hole.
Carat, caret, and carrot
Two, to, and too.
Know and no.
Pair and pear.
Red and read (past tense).
Rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise")
- 1 decade ago
the thing that your looking for is homonyms.
there, their, they're
blue, blue
rowed, road
band, banned
ball, bawl
board, bored
borne, borne, bourne, bourn
brake, break
creek, creak
die, dye
do, due, dew
faze, phase
moose, mousse
morning, mourning.
those are just some of many.
there are more at this site.
Source(s): http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/ - Anonymous1 decade ago
Record and record
there and their and they're
live and live
weather and whether
**** and ****
been and bean
heal and heel
sole and soul
straight and strait
can and can
mind and mined
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Peek and Peak
Dog and Dawg
Morn' and Mourn
- Anonymous1 decade ago
bare-bear
four-for
see-sea
they're called homophoes. Here'se a link to a whole page of them:
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hole Whole. Red Read
- BobLv 71 decade ago
cue, queue
oar, or
pea, pee
rex, wrecks
witch, which
too, to, two
we, wee, oui
led, lead
sleigh, slay
lie, lye
die, dye
- Anonymous1 decade ago
two =too,to
there=their
write me i can think of more later
write
bye
carrot
pole
fair
no
one
strahight
close
week
hole
weather
bean
heel
pair
hear
night
son
lock
hair
road
brake
die