Two Words that Sound the Same...

[Tovor]

Affect...
Effect.
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Two words that sound similar and have similar meanings. Can you think of any more?

Read, as in "Go read a book..." and read as in "He read a book..."
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The same word, spelled the same, but when pronounced differently changes the impact of the word.

Lying, as in telling a falsehood, and lying as in lying on the bed.
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Same word, two different meanings.

What two words can you think of that have similar pronunciation or spelling but have different meanings, or two words that sound similar but are spelled differently and have different meanings such as gorilla and guerilla?

[Tovor]

I can see this is a popular thread already. :P

Here is another one:

Patience and patients. A doctor who loses his patience will lose his patients.

[Tovor]

Innocence and innocents.

Wow, this thread is my most popular one ever! So much attention and participation, I love it! :ok:

[Tovor]

Resume and resume, as in resume-continue, and a work resume.

[sharyntyre]

^^ I think it's a cool idea, and I like your examples, but I can't seem to find any in the vast space between my ears.

[Tovor]

You've got a wide head, eh?

I just looked at your signature comment. How about rain and rein?

You can hope the rain stops, and you can stop a horse by pulling on the reins. You could say then, that you hope the rain reins.

Then there is also reign, indicating a time period of rulage.

So here we have 3 words, rain, rein, and reign.


If it rains everyday, then you are ruled by the rain. In affect, it is the reign of the rain, that you may hope would rein.

[sharyntyre]

Not wide, just hallow :nahnah:

[Tovor]

:laughing:


Thanks to people posting on my blog, I've been given pain and payne.

Whole and hole.

[Cassus Fett]

There and Thier

Where, Were and Wear

[sharyntyre]

night, and Knight

opposite of day, noble warriors

[Tovor]

There you go. You finally found the words that were bouncing back and forth between your ears. :ok:

[Darth Massacrus]

Something similar:

George: "So, I heard you went to Yale, Ted!"

Ted: "Indeed, George! I yust got out last week!"


Points to anyone who gets this pun.

[Sarah-Leia]

I get it.

Yale = Prison

Floor and flaw.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

**** and ****.

As in......a cockerel and ........also a **** is a slang term word for a man, up in the north of England.

[Tovor]

I get it.

Yale = Prison

Floor and flaw.

Nope.
I yust = I just, thus Yale = jail.

[Tovor]

**** and ****.

As in......a cockerel and ........also a **** is a slang term word for a man, up in the north of England.
By hiding the words with asterisks, you know what it makes you? Yes that's right, a co** tease. :P

[Tovor]

I can see a ship on the sea.

The way to be is to buzz like a bee.

I don't know if the answer is no.

He is too high for me to say hi.

My bug-hating aunt was afraid of an ant.

There is only one way to see what you weigh.

The fare was not priced fair.

I swung at the bat with the baseball bat.

He had to turn left at the only road left.

I turned right at the only road that was right.

I hope you don't mind, but I changed my mind.

I was led to write an article about lead.

[Sarah-Leia]

Nope.
I yust = I just, thus Yale = jail.


Well, yeah, that's what I mean.

Yale = what I said, only I wasn't sure which spelling to use so I put down the non-problematic alternative.

[Tovor]

I see. You go, girl. :ok:

[Sarah-Leia]

Of course I go...off I go.

*Leaves, carrying leaves*

[Darth Massacrus]

Nope.
I yust = I just, thus Yale = jail.

You got it! Yes!! Woo hooo!!!:)

[Sarah-Leia]

^ I GOT IT!!! GRRR. I ALREADY PUT MY REASON BEFORE TOV THEN I EXPLAINED IT!!

[sharyntyre]

Driver and Driver?

Chauffeur and a golf club.

[Tovor]

^ There you go.


Have you read the tale of Peter Cotton Tail?

If you don't know, then just say no.

[Tovor]

The knight rode at night.

A nit bugged her as she knit.

He had sex with a member of the opposite sex.

Using a snake to unclog the toilet, the plumber found a real snake in the pipe.

The sailor wailed over the death of the whale.

[sharyntyre]

I love to Sail, he loves to make a Sale

[Tovor]

Tell me the weight, don't make me wait.

[sharyntyre]

I got a bale of hay, but I couldn't post bail.

[Tovor]

^ Hey, you should have sold the hay!

[sharyntyre]

^good point!

How did I miss that? well mrs. Jackson walked by in that short skirt and miss Johnson got all catty.

I had to stare when she climbed the stairs

[Tovor]

^ I have to address how good she looks in a dress.

[Snake_Judge]

The Womb was covered in Woom

(Womb as in where a baby comes from and Woom is Bever fur)

[Tovor]

Fascinating, that is one thing I never knew. The woom, that is.

[Snake_Judge]

I play Bolderdash a lot. so I have some weird words I know the definition of.

[Tovor]

^ Got any more, then?

[Tovor]

How come I'm the only one keeping this thread going?

Massed and mast.

[Tovor]

Posed, and post.

Post as in bed post, and post as in "after", post-op.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Sow - as in sowing seeds and sow as in a female pig.

Calf - as in the muscle and calf as in a baby cow.

[sharyntyre]

^^ and Post, as in another word for mail.

Wench, and wench.

Wench, a woman, wench, cable & pully system found on rescue trucks and some private 4x4s.

Beeutch
my ex, or a female dog, or something that is difficult (this is a real beeutch to do) or complaining (what's your beeutch?)

[Darth Massacrus]

I was in DC this past week briefly, and some Southern tourist (real heavy accent) asks me where a "pahwn shop" could be found. You'll understand if I couldn't tell if he meant a pawn shop or a porn shop....

[sharyntyre]

Baron and Barren.

[Darth Massacrus]

Farmer: "I've got some news about those gnus..."

[Tovor]

The boss is looking for me. Do me a favor and stall him while I go to the bathroom. I'll be in the stall.

[Darth Massacrus]

"Hello, I work at the city dump. Excuse me for a while, I have to go take a dump."

[Whisper]

I had to write what was right :beer: Cheers!

[Momin327]

I told the sexton, who then tolled the bell.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Can you hold the club, he holed the putt.

[Doze]

There and Their

[sharyntyre]

I beat him with a club outside of The Club

[Doze]

Abomination – If Obama wins the presidency we will be 'an Obama-Nation'.

[Whisper]

I thought the fare was fair. That horse was bred on bread.