jueves, 14 de abril de 2011

Words- homonyms

WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE                 “Homonyms” 

There are a number of words in English that are pronounced the same as another Word but have a different spelling and meaning. For example, son and sun are both pronounced the same. Usually the meaning of words like this is clear from the sentences they are in.      My son is a doctor. / The sun is really hot today.

Here are some common words that most American and Canadian speakers pronounce alike:

Air/ heir                                           heal/ heel                                          rap/ wrap
Aisle/ I’ll/isle                                    hear/ here                                         read(past)/ red
Allowed/aloud                                 heard/ herd                                       right/ rite/ write
Ascent/ assent                                 hi/ high                                              road/ rode
Bare /bear                                       higher/ hire                                        role/ roll
Base/ bass                                       hole/ whole                                       sail/ sale
Be /bee                                            knew/ new                                        scene/ seen
Been/ bin                                          knight/ night                                      sea/ see
Berry/ bury                                       knot/ not                                           seam/ seen
Berth/ birth                                       know/ no                                          sew/ so / sow
Blew/ blue                                        lead( metal)/ led                                sole/ soul
Board/ bored                                    leased/ least                                     some/ sum
Brake/ break                                     lessen/ lesson                                   son/ sun
Bread/ bred                                       loan/ lone                                         stair/ stare
Buy/ by/ bye                                      made/ maid                                       stake/ steak

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