Aural & Oral

I've been putting this one off because drawing an ear in this style is... challenging. Not sure I really nailed it here, but it's as good as I've got in me right now. :)

With an Au – related to hearing.
With an O – related to the mouth.

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Ileum & Ilium

I know, I know. This one will be super-useful on a daily basis. You're welcome.

With an E – part of the small intestine.
With an I – part of the pelvis.

Than & Then

With an A – substance comparison.
With an E – time comparison.

Buy, By, Bye

Buy – Shut up and take my money.
By – Wait, YOU drew this?
Bye – See ya later, alligator.

Moor & More

-oor – (v.) secure a vessel by tying it down.

-ore – (adj.) a larger amount.

Click & Clique

-ck – small, snapping noise.
-que – small, French, snapping noise... No?... OK, it's a group of like-minded people, usually with the implication that they exclude new people from joining.

Fir & Fur

Seems like the right season for this one, doesn't it? Have a happy Life Day, everybody! ;)

Lessen & Lesson

With an E – (v.) make smaller.
With an O – (n.) a teaching unit.

Palate, Palette, Pallet

So many combinations of Ls and Ts! And As and Es! Who can keep them all straight??

Warn & Worn

With an A – (v.) Alert!
With an O – (adj.) Used to a level of decreased value. (also, the past participle of Wear.)

Pride & Pried

-ide – (n.) feeling of accomplishment.
-ied – (v.) past tense of Pry.

Callous & Callus (Final post)

It's Homophones, Weakly's fifth anniversary today, and also its final day.
I've enjoyed this project immensely, as well as chatting with many of you about words-n-stuff over the years, but it's time for me to move on. I can't commit to weekly updates here anymore. I may revisit HW from time to time – after all, there are still plenty of homophones to get to. But I can't be your Sunday habit anymore...
Or can I?
I've been collecting lost/discarded shopping lists for years. (Shut up, it's not weird! And I'm not the only one who does it!) But it's finally time for me to do something with them! Starting today, I'll be blogging one list every week, accompanied by an illustration of the person I imagine wrote it. It's called Shoppers Unknown, and I'll be trying it out on Tumblr as well here on Blogger. I'll have links to it from Twitter, Facebook, and Ello as usual, too. (Jeez, suddenly this sounds like a lot of work...)
Anyway, the point is I'll still be drawing something for you every Sunday! I'll just be posting it over at Shoppers Unknown. I hope to see you there!
And here's our final pair of homophones, Callous & Callus, which pays tribute to HW's very first post on 3/6/2011.
-ous – (adj.) Mean, uncaring.
-us – (n.) Hard patch of toughened skin.

Finish & Finnish

Right, Rite, Wright, Write

Right – 1: opposite of left. 2: correct.
Rite – ceremony, ritual.
Wright – worker, craftsperson.
Write – oh, jeez, just try to define writing, wouldja? Let's see... to communicate using visual/tactile symbols that represent words/concepts. Or something like that. Sheesh. If you're reading this, you know what writing is!

Misses & Mrs.

Not trying to be heteronormative here, just simplifying for visual clarity.

Guessed & Guest

Guest – Knock, knock.
Guessed – Who's there?

Colonel & Kernel

I know what you're thinking; but I wasn't gonna shill for some fast food restaurant here...

Regimen & Regiment

Without a T – a course of activity, such as a medication or exercise schedule.
With a T – a military unit.

Bough & Bow

-ough – tree branch.
-ow – (v.) bend formally at the waist. (n.) the front end of a ship.
But remember not to confuse these kinds of bows with these kinds of bows!