• by sandbach on 3/18/2025, 1:50:05 PM

  • by bilekas on 3/18/2025, 11:46:01 AM

    I've never heard of 'Multinyms' but I am right in thinking they're just homophones ?

  • by walthamstow on 3/18/2025, 2:07:05 PM

    This is extremely dependent on dialect and accent, but they don't specify which one they're talking about.

    > borough, burro, burrow

    Nah, not 'round 'ere they ain't.

  • by yubiox on 3/18/2025, 12:05:24 PM

    I also maintain a list of these. Here are some I don't see there:

    greater grater grader

    baron barren bearing

    your cees, seas, sees, seize is missing cease

    grisly grizzly gristly

    pedal peddle petal

    I also put since with cense, cents, scents, sense

    steal steel still

    peal peel pill

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  • by sparsely on 3/18/2025, 10:21:24 AM

    Some of these have different pronunciation (depending on accent?), e.g. parish vs perish

  • by rahimnathwani on 3/18/2025, 4:13:47 PM

      Thanks to Warren Kinney for distinguishing the British pronunciation of "new" and "knew"
    
    I'm confused about this. I'm from London, and I say these two words exactly the same way.

  • by tgv on 3/18/2025, 11:16:26 AM

    Multinyms, so words with multiple pronounciations/names?

    Anyway, I'm not a native speaker, but e.g. air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir does not sound identical to me. The Oxford English Dictionary says: ɛː, ɑː/ə, ɛː, ɛː, əː, ɛː, which makes are and err different. Unfortunately, the author doesn't give a source, so it's probably just his dialect?

  • by amichal on 3/18/2025, 12:40:54 PM

    This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

    Edit: It's not on the list because its using multiple meanings of the same spelling...

  • by scottshambaugh on 3/18/2025, 11:52:15 AM

    Throw in regional accents and you’ll get many more! Aaron earned an iron urn: https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=J34OmyDod7GHUrl1

  • by smckk on 3/18/2025, 11:54:18 AM

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  • by djoldman on 3/18/2025, 2:18:16 PM

    > Sextuplets:

    > air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir

    When does "are" sound like the rest?

  • by DannyB2 on 3/18/2025, 5:24:34 PM

    For: call, caul, col

    Wot about: cawl ?

  • by crustycoder on 3/18/2025, 11:33:28 AM

    Many of these are totally pants/panz/pænts

  • by petesergeant on 3/18/2025, 11:48:12 AM

    I would add yaw/yore/your/you’re

  • by singularity2001 on 3/18/2025, 4:45:36 PM

    air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir

    I guess I need to go back to school because I pronounce some of them quite differently.