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
If you need help: Ewe mite higher too guise two bee yore assistance.
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
Real eyes realize real lies.
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.
'Polynyms', surely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarism_(linguistics)