i want list of homonyms?

Answer 1

Their, there
To, too, two
Him, hymn
One, won
In, inn
tow, toe
I, eye
Alms, arms
ball (round thing) ball (formal dance party)
Stationary (still) stationery (writing material)
and many more.(moore - grassland in Scotland)

eight, ate
stare, stair
can (have ability to) can (container usually of steel)
but, butt (end of a thing)
by, buy
sum, some
for, four
die, dye
book (thing you read), book (make a reservation)
led, lead
On and on they go.
If I repeat, please forgive me. I come back every time I think of a new one.
Some, sum
there, their
mine (hole in the ground), mine (ka boom)
site, sight
record (best time) record (make a recording of)
sell, cell

Answer 2

Let's first see what a Homonym is:
A Homonym is a word that is written and pronounced the same way as another, but which has a different meaning.

AN EXAMPLE OF A HOMONYM:

'Lie' can be a verb meaning to tell something that is not true or to be in a horizontal position. They look and sound the same, but are different verbs as can be seen from their forms:

Lie-lied-lied (to say something untrue)

Lie-lay-lain (to be in a horizontal position)

I give below some sentences in which the homonymes have been used. This may prove handy for you;

1. I hope the pharmacist brews up some good medicine to put on my bruise. homonyms

2. We planted a pair of pear trees in the yard.
.
3. Aunt Evie hates hunting, so please hide that deer hide before she gets here.

4.. I hired a fine lawyer to defend me, but he charged me more than the fine I would have had to pay.

5. Her knight in shining armor rides a horse that is as black as night.
.
.6. The key to the new boat was dropped on the quay.

7 .That beautiful pen (female swan) should not be imprisoned in a pen!

8. Even in the bright light of day, the light plastic table looked identical to the heavy wooden one



^

Answer 3

A further example of a homonym which is both a homophone and a homograph is fluke. Fluke can mean-

* A fish, and a flatworm.
* The end parts of an anchor.
* The fins on a whale's tail.
* A stroke of luck.

All four are separate lexemes with separate etymologies, but share the one form, fluke. Similarly, a river bank, a savings bank, and a bank of switches share only a common spelling and pronunciation, but not meaning.

The first homophones that one learns in English are probably the homophones to, too, and two, but the sentence "Too much to do in two days" would confuse no one. (Note, however, when read with a natural rhythm in many dialects, to has a schwa and is not homophonous with too or two.)

There, their, and they're are familiar examples, as are lead (the metal) and led (the verb past participle).
Moped (the motorized bicycle) and moped (the past tense of mope) are examples of homographs; they are not homophones, because they are pronounced differently.

In some accents, various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction (a minimal pair) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples from English are:-

pin and pen in many southern American accents.
merry, marry, and Mary in many western American accents.
The pairs do, due and forward, foreword are homophonous in most American accents but not in most British accents.
The pairs talk, torque, and court, caught are distinguished in rhotic accents such as Scottish English and most dialects of American English, but are homophones in many non-rhotic accents such as British Received Pronunciation.

Homophones are sometimes used in message encryption to increase the difficulty in cracking the decryption code. In this case the clear text is altered prior to being encrypted and the decrypting party substitutes the homophones for their true meaning after decrypting the message

Many puns rely on homophones for their humor.

Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. See also polysemy for a closely related idea.
[edit]

Heterologue

Heterologues are words in different languages that have same spelling and pronounication but have different meanings.
[edit]

Quote

His death, which happen'd in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell

Thomas Hood, "Faithless Sally Brown"

Answer 4

Homonyms are words that sound the same, but with a different spelling & meaning. In the website given to you prior to my answer, I did find some inconsistencies. A few examples they listed were valid only with a particular accent:

Barry - correctly pronounced Baaaaa-ree (not Bare-ee)
berry - pronounced beh-ree (not bare-ee)
bury - pronounced beh-ree (not bare-ee)
beary - IS pronounced bare-ee

just as in:
very - pronounced veh-ree (not vair-ee) (e as in bed)
vary - pronounced vair-ee

Harry - pronounced Haaaaaa-ree (not hare-ee)
hairy - pronounced hair-ee

ferry - pronounced feh-ree (not fare-ee)
ferry --- is actually a homonym of "furry"
fairy - pronounced fare-ee

Mary - pronounced Mare-ee
merry - pronounced meh-ree (not mare-ee)
marry - pronounced maaaaaa-ree

gnawed - pronounced nawwd (or naud, as in gaudy)
nod - pronounced nahhhhd (n with odd)

sawed - pronounced sawwd (as in broad or flawed)
sod - pronounced sahhhhd (s with odd)


The way these are mentioned on the web site sounds like someone with a Chicago or Pittsburgh accent.

Contrary to some opinions, the following sentence does not have the words sounding the same:

Barry and Mary were very merry when they got married.
(Baaaa-ree & Mare-ee were veh-ree meh-ree when they got maaaaaa-reed!)

Most of the others I found were not accent-tinged.

What part of the country do you come from? I trade accent quips with many friends of mine all over the country.

Answer 5

here is a nice list: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

and also on that website is a description, what a homonym is etc :)

Answer 6

A
a very short little insignificant English word

eh an interrogative utterance

acts things done

ax chopping tool

ad short for advertisement

add short for addition

adds performs additions

ads more than one advertisement

adze axe-like tool

ade fruit beverage

aid to assist
aide an assistant

aerie eagle's nest

airy breezy

aero of aircraft

arrow slender, pointed shaft

affect to change

effect result

ail sick

ale beer

air stuff we breathe

are 1/100th of a hectare

e'er contraction of "ever"

ere eventually

err to make a mistake

heir one who will inherit

Answer 7

Here you go:http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html