Sep 3 2022 - Crews Cruise

 

What about expressions like "cruise crews" - same pronunciation, different spellings, different meanings, and making sense. There seem to be a lot of these combinations - "to two, too."  And "ate eight." The "whole hole". And so on. One can learn better spellings with silly sentences that contain homophones.  Here are a few: The priest had chewing gum stuck to his soul. There was a leek in the boat and it sank. The guerrilla was fed bananas at the zoo. She used flower and water to make bread. The man put wooden steaks in his garden. He walked into the mail bathroom. And what about all the silly homophone jokes: 1. How many members of a convent does it take to change a light bulb? Nun. 2. What did the chess piece say before bed? Knight knight. 3. What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea. 4. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still no idea. 5. What does Santa say when gardening? Hoe hoe hoe. 6. Why would a chess piece in charge of a city be like a bad dream? Because it would be a knight mayor. And we can even find  jokes with reference to homophones and homophones in them: Just saw a man crying because he doesn't know what a homophone is. To comfort him I sat next to him, patted his back and said, "They're, their, there..." A dictionary and a thesaurus have a child together They had a difficult time accepting that their child was a homophone Got called a homophone after leaving a bad review on a store's website. Look, eye don't care who cells the product. If it brakes, I won't by it with my hard urned cache!

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To, Too, and Two made me think of homophones and homonyms.  With a simple search I find a lot of sites and a lot of people with an interest in homophones.  Here's the chart that shows the comparisons with bough and bow.  This chart comes from magickeys.com.   It shows all the variations - homonym, homophone, homograph and heteronym.         Same Sound / different meanings Same Spelling / different meanings     Homonyms    Homophones   Homographs   Heteronyms      Different Spelling   Different Sound     bough  (tree limb) bow  (front of a boat) bow  (at the waist) bow  (tied with ribbon) bow  (shoots arrows) bough bow bow bow bow bough bow bough bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow           Wikipedia's list of homonyms is 246 words long.  I expect this is incomplete - there are a few sites dedicated to homophones - homophone.com is another one. I went on to find homophone jokes, which are plentiful.  Here's my selection.  How many members of a convent does it take to change a light bulb? Nun. What did the chess piece say before bed? Knight knight. What does Santa say when gardening? Hoe hoe hoe. Why would a chess piece in charge of a city be like a bad dream? Because it would be a knight mayor. What is ice cream’s favorite day of the week? Sundae. What did one homophone say to comfort the other homophone? Their, there, they’re. If you enjoyed them, these jokes come from homophonelist.com.   This site has a scrollable list that is extensive.  I had to scroll through it, and found a few that  are equal or better than bow: lays, laze, leas, leis, leys pa, pah, par, parr, pas hair, aire, are, are, ere, eyre And then I found the winner:  ere, eyre, air, aire, are, ayre, heir Is English the language with the most homophones?  No, it is Chinese!