Homophones
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Homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelt differently.
The words may be spelt the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of 'rise'), or differently, such as two and too.
Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader (as in crossword puzzles) or to suggest multiple meanings.
Examples of British-English homophones.
- ad / add
- altar / alter
- brake / break
- buy / by / bye
- check / cheque
- close / cloze
- council / counsel
- days / daze
- dear / deer
- desert / dessert
- dual / duel
- eye / I
- flea / flee
- friar / fryer
- gorilla / guerilla
- hair / hare
- hear / here
- knot / not
- idle / idol
- pain / pane
- principal / principle
- real / reel
- rose / rows
- sea / see
- steal / steel
- which / witch
- wood / would
