Tuesday Tidbits: HOMOPHONES

In third grade, my teacher had the class do an activity with homophones. On a bulletin board she had a large, bare tree—just the trunk and branches. Each day, she would ask if anyone knew a new homophone: those words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently and have different meanings. If a student could spell both (or all three) words correctly and define each one (or use the word in a sentence to show they knew what the word meant), then those words would be written on a leaf and put on the Homophone Tree. 

I’ve thought about that activity and tree off and on over the years. So, I decided to see how many homophones I could come up with on my own, from my own brain without looking them up online. I surprised myself at how many I thought of. I’m sure I missed some easy ones, but I’m not going to get down on myself for the ones I didn’t think of, but CELEBRATE the ones I did get. I just needed to do this exercise long enough for my brain to be satisfied and move on to other things. I didn’t find a pair for every letter, so I hope my brain will let this go. 

I thought of several three word groups but no four words groups. I chose not to include people or place names and stuck to English words. I realize that with different accents, some of my words groups may not be all pronounced the same, and likewise, there might be others who would include other groups by the way they pronounce words. That makes for nice variety. =0)

So here is my list:

A

Ad // Add

Air // Heir // Err

All // Awl

Ant // Aunt

Ate // Eight 

B

Bail // Bale

Ball // Bawl

Bare // Bear

Be // Bee

Beat // Beet

Bite // Byte

Blue // Blew

Boar // Bore

Board // Bored

Boarder // Border

Bow // Beau

Brake // Break

But // Butt

By // Bye // Buy

C

Carrot // Karat

Cash // Cache

Caught // Cot

Ceiling // Sealing

Cellar // Seller

Close // Clothes

Coat // Cote

Colonel // Kernel

Cord // Cored

Course // Coarse

Creak // Creek

D

Dawn // Don

Do // Due // Dew

Doe // Dough

Dye // Die

E

Eight // Ate

F

Fair // Fare

Feet // Feat

Find // Fined

Fir // Fur

For // Four // Fore

Flew // Flu // Flue

G

Gel // Jell

Great // Grate

Guest // Guessed

H

Hail // Hale

Hair // Hare

Hall // Haul

Hay // Hey

Heal //Heel

Heard // Herd

Here // Hear

Hi // High

Hole // Whole

Holy // Wholly 

I

I // Eye // Aye

Its // It’s

Isle // Aisle

J

Jam // Jamb

Jeans // Genes

K

Key // Cay

L

Lam // Lamb

Lead // Led

Liar // Lyre

Lie // Lye

Light // Lite

M

Mail // Male

Main // Mane

Mantle // Mantel

Marry // Merry

Mat // Matte

Mead // Meed

Medal // Mettle

Mind // Mined

Moat // Mote

More // Moor

N

Nay // Neigh

Need // Knead

New // Knew

No // Know

None // Nun

Not // Knot // Naught

O

One // Won

Or // Oar // Ore

P

Pail // Pale

Pain // Pane

Pair // Pear // Pare

Peak // Peek // Pique

Peal // Peel

Pedal // Petal

Peer // Pier

Per // Purr

Plate // Plait

Poll // Pole

Poor // Pore

Pray // Prey

Q

Queue // Cue

R

Rain // Rein // Reign

Read // Reed

Read // Red

Real // Reel

Road // Rode

Roll // Role

Rough // Ruff

Row // Roe

S

Sail // Sale

Sea // Sea

Seam // Seem

Seas // Sees // Seize

Shoe // Shoo

Shutter // Shudder

Size // Sighs

Sight // Site

So // Sew // Sow

Soar // Sore

Some // Sum

Soul // Sole

Stair // Stare

Stalk // Stock

Steal // Steel

Summery // Summary

T

Tail // Tale

Taut // Taught

Tea // Tee

Tear // Tare

There // Their // They’re

Through // Threw

Tied // Tide

To // Two // Too

Toe // Tow

U

V

Vail // Vale // Veil

Vain // Vane // Vein

W

Wail // Whale // Wale

Wait // Weight

Walk // Wok

War // Wore

Way // Weigh

Wear // Ware // Where

Weather // Whether

What // Watt

Which // Witch

Whine // Wine

Would // Wood

Write // Right // Rite

X

Y

You // Ewe

Your // You’re

Z

I didn't know I knew so many. This was fun! =0)

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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

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