Call for Homonyms

I like homonyms--words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Some examples:

here/hear
one/won
by/buy
son/sun
hair/hare
to/two/too
wood/would
four/for/fore (for all you golfers)
be/bee
effect/affect

We have a lot of them in English, and I write them down whenever I hear them. Here are some interesting ones I have collected recently:

pie/pi
feet/feat
great/grate
night/knight
all/awl
no/know
new/knew

Now to the advanced section:

mustard/mustered
wholly/holy/holey
foray/4A/Faure (accent aigu)
Riley/wryly/Reilly
Gemini/Jim and I (in certain dialects)
flour/flower (ditto)
toad/towed/toed
load/lode/lowed
wrapped/rapt
moose/mousse
wave/waive
sight/site/cite
so/sew/sow
lieu/loo (British)/Lou
air/ere/Eyre



Please feel free to send in your own homonyms, or to dispute the ones I have listed here.

Speaking of Rhyme

The 064 Novel/Film class wrote name poems. I just asked them to write something short with their name and a rhyme for it. I tweaked occasionally.

Here they are:

My name is N.B.
I’m gonna make a CD
You can watch me on TV.

Tomorrow Tomohiro
Will have two Mellow Yellows.
And then he’ll say good morrow.

I am Jay,
I am kind.
Like a gentle wind
In your mind.

Seo Young
Sing a song,
So fun, sing along.

My name is Hyun Sung;
Just call me Handsome.
Namu means tree—
But she’s a flower to me.

We meet Jun at noon
on the moon
with a spoon.
What’s he doin’?

Sohail
Is in jail
But he will not go to hell.

Hui has a key.
Follow me,
says he,
to Lee in the sea.

Raid sighed.
Raid cried.
Raid died.
And I lied.

Moo likes blue
And loves what is true.

Hey, Sun,
I love to see you shine.
Where’s Hae Lim?
She’s at the gym.

Alan Alan Alan
Sounds like island.
Maybe like heaven.
People like Alan.

Jay, hey,
How ya’ doin’, Jay?
Do you want to play
Every day?

I want Maxime
On my team.
That’s my dream.

Raeed don’t need weed.
He needs a bird that can breed.

Abdull is cool
Swimming in the pool
Abdull Abdull

Hammer
Handsome
Ha Ha Ha
Hanna

Ji Hoo
How are you?

And please come in,
Mi Jin.

Hassan’s like the sun—
Nice in his talk,
And gentle in his walk.

Don’t rent that apartment, Khalid;
It’s squalid.



For the Students Who Were Absent

Sorry, Saori, and also Pei Pei
I missed you today.

Omar,
why did you go
so far?

Where are you,
Ayu?