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Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Classiclatest(op): 9:24am On Mar 05, 2024

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by hakeemhakeem(m): 11:44am On Mar 05, 2024

Igba--calabash
Igba--period

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 1:12pm On Mar 05, 2024*

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.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by poshestmina(f): 2:08pm On Mar 05, 2024

Thought/Taught.
Of/off
Seen/sin
Steal/steel
Bye/buy
Know/No
New/knew
Fare/fair
Heir/Air.
Loose/lose
Save/safe

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by KanielOutis92: 2:51pm On Mar 05, 2024

Porn/Pun

Boo Harry/ Beau Harry / Buhari

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 3:28pm On Mar 05, 2024*

poshestmina:
Thought/Taught.❌
Of/off ❌
Seen/sin
Steal/steel
Bye/buy
Know/No
New/knew
Fare/fair

[b]Heir/Air.
Loose/lose❌
Save/safe ❌

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.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Benwallt(m): 4:19pm On Mar 05, 2024*

poshestmina:
Thought/Taught. ❌
Of/off
Seen/sin
Steal/steel
Bye/buy
Know/No
New/knew
Fare/fair
Heir/Air.
Loose/lose❌
Save/safe

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by oglalasioux(m): 4:55pm On Mar 05, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
The three bolded words are not homophones.
Heir has the sound of /huh/ while Air doesn't have the / huh/ sound.

Heir should be a homophone of hair and hare

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.

Are you very sure of heir/air?

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 4:57pm On Mar 05, 2024

oglalasioux:
Are you very sure of heir/air?

Sorry the h is silent.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Scholarnwadimma(f): 5:07pm On Mar 05, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
Yes. The 'h ' in heir is not silent now.

The'h' in heir is silent. Check your dictionary.

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 5:11pm On Mar 05, 2024

Scholarnwadimma:
The'h' in heir is silent. Check your dictionary.

Yeah you're right.

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by poshestmina(f): 5:47pm On Mar 05, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
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.

Thank you darling.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 6:00pm On Mar 05, 2024

poshestmina:
Thank you darling.

You're welcome my love. wink

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Rexymania(m): 8:12pm On Mar 05, 2024

KanielOutis92:
Porn/Pun

Boo Harry/ Beau Harry / Buhari

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Rexymania(m): 8:13pm On Mar 05, 2024

Come
Cum

Fan
Fan

Sheet
Shit

Fvck
Fork

Dick
Dick

grin

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 8:44pm On Mar 05, 2024

poshestmina:
Thought/Taught.
Of/off
Seen/sin ❌
Steal/steel
Bye/buy
Know/No
New/knew
Fare/fair
Heir/Air.
Loose/lose
Save/safe ❌

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.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 9:00pm On Mar 05, 2024

KanielOutis92:
Porn/Pun❌

Boo Harry/ Beau Harry / Buhari

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.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by rillchritty(m): 9:02pm On Mar 05, 2024

Rexymania:
Come
Cum

Fan
Fan

Sheet❌
Shit❌

Fvck❌
Fork❌

Dick
Dick

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by frankyychiji: 10:19pm On Mar 05, 2024

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, 2024

rillchritty:
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.

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, 2024

rillchritty:
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.

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, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
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.

No they don't. You're only saying that because Nigerians pronounce them the same. Listen to both words on Google, in proper articulation.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Jewessgratitud3: 1:41am On Mar 06, 2024

1Sharon:
No they don't. You're only saying that because Nigerians pronounce them the same. Listen to both words on Google, in proper articulation.

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, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
Nope. I'm not going by the Nigerian diction. I'm talking about pure British diction. They

In pure British diction sin/seen are not homophones and no British person will ever say they are.

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by Mario1989(m): 3:03am On Mar 06, 2024

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, 2024

Jewessgratitud3:
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.

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).

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by PaZwoD: 7:05am On Mar 06, 2024

hakeemhakeem:
Igba--calabash
Igba--period

But these two words have different and clear pronunciation.

Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by marlenewa(f): 7:21am On Mar 06, 2024

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Tire
Tyre

Roam
Rom

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Re: Different Words With The Same Pronunciation by christejames(m): 7:30am On Mar 06, 2024

Tribulation and Tinubulation grin

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