Homonyms
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There sure are a lot of homonyms in the English language.
One/won two/too/to four/for eight/ate road/rode read/reed aunt/ant gnu/knew/new know/no your/you're there/their/they're wine/whine son/sun oh/owe bye/buy/by hugh/hew caught/cot where/wear threw/through blew/blue Mary/marry/merry toe/tow catch/ketch so/sew bow/bough quart/court flower/flour I/eye you/ewe caramel/Carmel manner/manor wants/once collar/caller higher/hire our/hour aisle/isle/I'll do/due cereal/serial or/oar pour/poor tax/tacks balm/bomb |
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There are a lot of homonyms, but the following are not in my accent:
caught/cot, catch/ketch, wants/once, collar/caller, balm/bomb |
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Ben/been
sense/cents sent/cent/scent bow/bough clothes/close be/bee |
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| In what accent are ben/been and clothes/close homonyms? |
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As mentioned above it all depends on accent. Here're the words from your list that
are no homonyms in my accent.
aunt/ant caught/cot Mary/marry Mary/merry marry/merry catch/ketch quart/court caramel/Carmel wants/once collar/caller our/hour do/due balm/bomb Ben/been clothes/close Also, we could extend the "w"/"wh" list to. wine/whine wear/where witch/which weather/whether Wales/whales However there as those for whom "w" and "wh" represent different sounds. How about this list of homonyms? court/caught or/ore/oar/awe lore/law shore/sure/Shaw poor/pour/paw porn/pawn fort/fought torque/talk due/dew/jew duke/juke dune/june farther/father Well, I don't know about you but these work for me. |
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Here are some more:
aren't/aunt metre/meter pore/poor/pour/paw tort/taught |
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sore/saw
nor/gnaw core/caw more/maw |
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sought/sort
source/sauce sword/sawed sores/saws cores/cause pores/pours/paws/pause floor/flaw roar/raw |
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| Ben and been are pronounced the same. Both as [ben]. |
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| About ''close'' and ''clothes''. I'm an American and pronounce them both as ''kloaz''. |
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| That's interesting. I pronounce "Ben" as [ben], "been" as [bin], "close" as [klo:z], and "clothes" as [klo:THz]. What part of the US are you from? |
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I pronounce those words the same way as Eastie.
I know that certain Commonwealth speakers pronounce "been" as [bi:n], but I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced [ben]. |
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As I've been trying to point out, it all depends on your accent. What are homonyms
for you might not be for me. For example, here's how I pronounce those words.
"been" = [bi:n] "ben" = [ben] "close" = [klOuz] "clothes" = [klOuTHz] They're not homonyms for me but my accent isn't the be all and end all of it either. Of course it doesn't really count for anything but at least I pronounce "been" and "clothes" the way they are spelt (or at least they way they'd seem to be spelt). |
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| Oh, for you ''been'' and ''bin'' are homonyms, not'' been'' and ''Ben''. Well, the dictionary does list [bin] as the ''been'' pronunciation, but some people say [ben]. |
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| Come to think of it I might say [bin] for "been" in a sentence if I'm speaking fast but not if I say the word in isolation. |