A visual exploration of words that look the same, sound the same, or are otherwise easily confused. Updated weakly through 2016, now only occasionally. The book version "Homophones Visualized" is available wherever books are sold. Thanks for checking in!
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Borough, Burro, Burrow
Inextricably linked to New York, I'm sure you could carry the accent for Borough far enough that it would be a homophone for Borrow instead. But this grouping suits my midwestern ears better.
I haven't seen this pure homophonic quadruple anywhere. The fourth entry makes it, of course: I, aye, eye, ai ('pure' means no plurals of nouns, no punctuation or abbreviations, etc...So, for example, we wouldn't count 'raise' and 'rays' as pure nor 'raise' and 'Ray's'..Here's a homophone joke for all you rockers out there: A teenager named Fallis is the son of a mohil (a man who performs ritual circumcisions). Fallis is the leader of a band; it's an all percussion band, with four members, each playing a drum. They are able to maintain their equipment by recycling 'material' from Fallis' father's practice. Their band is named - of course - the four skins. Try to think of a worse one than that...JG
I haven't seen this pure homophonic quadruple anywhere. The fourth entry makes it, of course: I, aye, eye, ai
ReplyDelete('pure' means no plurals of nouns, no punctuation or abbreviations, etc...So, for example, we wouldn't count 'raise' and 'rays' as pure nor 'raise' and 'Ray's'..Here's a homophone joke for all you rockers out there: A teenager named Fallis is the son of a mohil (a man who performs ritual circumcisions). Fallis is the leader of a band; it's an all percussion band, with four members, each playing a drum. They are able to maintain their equipment by recycling 'material' from Fallis' father's practice. Their band is named - of course - the four skins.
Try to think of a worse one than that...JG