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Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Classiclatest(m): 9:24am On Mar 05 |
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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by hakeemhakeem(m): 11:44am On Mar 05 |
Igba--calabash Igba--period 5 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 1:12pm On Mar 05 |
Homophones Son Sun San Brake Break Vein Vane Vain Waste Waist Ate Eight Weigh Way Weight wait Create Crate Great Grate Cite Site Sight Lite Light Die Dye Lie Lye Still Steal Steel Scene Seen Sin Sea See Cee We Wee Will add more as I remember. 7 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by poshestmina(f): 2:08pm On Mar 05 |
Thought/Taught. Of/off Seen/sin Steal/steel Bye/buy Know/No New/knew Fare/fair Heir/Air. Loose/lose Save/safe 5 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by KanielOutis92: 2:51pm On Mar 05 |
Porn/Pun Boo Harry/ Beau Harry / Buhari 6 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 3:28pm On Mar 05 |
poshestmina: You missed 4 words. They are not homophones. "Thought' is pronounced 'fort" with this th sound /θ/ θort. while taught is pronounced with/ t/ sound. Of' is pronounced' 'Ov ' while off is pronounced with 'f' off. Loose has / s/ sound while lose had 'z' sound as in luuz. So not homophones. Save is pronounced with 'v' sound while safe is sounded with ' f ' therefore they can't be homophones. 6 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Benwallt(m): 4:19pm On Mar 05 |
poshestmina: 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by oglalasioux(m): 4:55pm On Mar 05 |
Jewessgratitud3: Are you very sure of heir/air? |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 4:57pm On Mar 05 |
oglalasioux: Sorry the h is silent. 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Scholarnwadimma(f): 5:07pm On Mar 05 |
Jewessgratitud3:The'h' in heir is silent. Check your dictionary. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 5:11pm On Mar 05 |
Scholarnwadimma: Yeah you're right. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by poshestmina(f): 5:47pm On Mar 05 |
Jewessgratitud3: Thank you darling. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 6:00pm On Mar 05 |
poshestmina: You're welcome my love. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Rexymania(m): 8:12pm On Mar 05 |
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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Rexymania(m): 8:13pm On Mar 05 |
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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 8:44pm On Mar 05 |
poshestmina: In addition to what others have highlighted, 'seen' and 'sin' are not homophones; they do NOT sound the same at all. The former has the long 'I' sound, whereas the latter has the short 'i' sound. Note that these two vowel sounds are phonetically distinct and require different lip opening and tongue positions to pronounce. Unfortunately, Nigerian students are not taught to properly distinguish them. Another example is 'sheep' and 'ship'. The words 'save' and 'safe' feature two different consonants: 'v' and 'f', respectively. 3 Likes |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 9:00pm On Mar 05 |
KanielOutis92: The words 'porn' and 'pun' are not homophones; their phonetic representations are /pɔːn/ and /pʌn/. Most Nigerians incorrectly pronounce the short vowel /ʌ/ either as short 'o' (as in 'lot') or as the long vowel sound /ɔ:/ (as in 'lord'). Actually, it is closer to the schwa sound than any of these two. My post assumes British English. 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 9:02pm On Mar 05 |
Rexymania: |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by frankyychiji(f): 10:19pm On Mar 05 |
Hate/Eight Auntie/Hanty Edge/Hedge Ate/Hate House/oust Help/Epp Rich/Rish Cushion/Cousin Morning! Mooring Chair/Seer Hagain/Again Hang/Ang If you don't Gerrit, forgerrit. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 11:32pm On Mar 05 |
rillchritty: Seen and sin are homophones because they have the same pronunciation. We are not talking about contrast between the long and short forms of the /I/ vowel nor the place of articulation here. We are talking about words that sound the same basically. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by 1Sharon(f): 12:42am On Mar 06 |
rillchritty: I think the issue here is accent. What Nigerians think is a homophones is based on how they pronounce words. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by 1Sharon(f): 12:45am On Mar 06 |
Jewessgratitud3: No they don't. You're only saying that because Nigerians pronounce them the same. Listen to both words on Google, in proper articulation. 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 1:41am On Mar 06 |
1Sharon: Nope. I'm not going by the Nigerian diction. I'm talking about pure British diction. They |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by 1Sharon(f): 2:02am On Mar 06 |
Jewessgratitud3: In pure British diction sin/seen are not homophones and no British person will ever say they are. 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Mario1989(m): 3:03am On Mar 06 |
CUM/COME FUC.K/FORK PORN/PUN LICK/LEAK KNACK/NARK WET/WAIT |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 4:12am On Mar 06 |
Jewessgratitud3: As I already said, the long 'I' and the short 'i' are NOT variants of the same sound. Being termed 'long' and 'short' does not mean that they are distinguished by duration only. They sound completely different when correctly pronounced. Listen carefully to the British (and American) pronunciation of 'seen' (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/seen) and 'sin' (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/sin). 1 Like |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by PaZwoD: 7:05am On Mar 06 |
hakeemhakeem: But these two words have different and clear pronunciation. |
Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by marlenewa(f): 7:21am On Mar 06 |
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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by christejames(m): 7:30am On Mar 06 |
Tribulation and Tinubulation |
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