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| 1108.1 | rite on | GAVEL::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584 | Mon Jul 18 1994 12:52 | 1 |
| rite, wright, right
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| 1108.2 | | CSC32::D_DERAMO | Dan D'Eramo, Customer Support Center | Mon Jul 18 1994 13:19 | 1 |
| Mary, merry, marry
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| 1108.3 | | RICKS::PHIPPS | Better plant some more trees | Mon Jul 18 1994 16:51 | 2 |
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bore, boar, boor
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| 1108.4 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Mon Jul 18 1994 17:13 | 11 |
| >to, two, too
Ahem.
Please send two Nagoya tickets to Joe Mon.
Two Tu to Tutu Tue. too.
(Though this is cheating a bit. If an English-speaker reads them
all as transliterated, or if a Japanese-speaker pronounces them all
with a Japanese accent, then they're all homophones, but actually
Tu is not pronouced like the others.)
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| 1108.5 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Stick this fish in your ear | Mon Jul 18 1994 17:55 | 4 |
| Haw, Hoar, Whore.
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| 1108.6 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Mon Jul 18 1994 23:36 | 11 |
| Or, oar, ore
Air, err, ere
Yore, your, you're
There, their, they're
Are, our, hour
Fish, fiche, ghoti
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| 1108.7 | | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Tue Jul 19 1994 00:28 | 1 |
| raise, rays, raze
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| 1108.8 | Pedantry rails but probably doesn't rule. | SMURF::BINDER | etsi capularis ego vita fruar | Tue Jul 19 1994 05:57 | 16 |
| Many of these are really stretching things. In cultivated speech, by
which I do NOT mean uppity pronunciation but merely fully articulated
English, the following are NOT true homophones:
.0: pour, poor, pore - poor is sounded differently.
.2: Mary, merry, marry - three distinct pronunciations.
.3: bore, boar, boor - as in .0, boor is the odd one out. (But try Boer.)
.5: haw, hoar, whore - homophones only where terminal R is lost.
.6: yore, your, you're - you're is more like boor/poor.
are, our, hour - are lacks the rounded `w' sound.
fish, fiche, ghoti - fiche is the odd one out, pronounced feesh.
Now then, if we want to allow regional pronunciations, all of the above
would be acceptable. As would:
bar, barre, b'ar (3-year-old Davy Crockett's ursine victim)
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| 1108.9 | | NOVA::FISHER | Tay-unned, rey-usted, rey-ady | Tue Jul 19 1994 06:20 | 1 |
| heir, air, err, ere
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| 1108.10 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Tue Jul 19 1994 13:54 | 8 |
| > In cultivated speech, by
> which I do NOT mean uppity pronunciation but merely fully articulated
> English...
> Now then, if we want to allow regional pronunciations, all of the above
> would be acceptable.
Prescriptivist. What's a non-regional pronunciation?
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| 1108.11 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Stick this fish in your ear | Tue Jul 19 1994 16:39 | 7 |
| re <<< Note 1108.10 by NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085" >>>
>Prescriptivist. What's a non-regional pronunciation?
Well *I* certainly don't have a regional accent :^)
Chele
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| 1108.12 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Tue Jul 19 1994 18:15 | 8 |
| .1> rite, wright, right
, write
And if we add regional accents...
light
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| 1108.13 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Tue Jul 19 1994 21:45 | 15 |
| You, yew, ewe
Yews, ewes, use
Tea, tee, ti (musical note)
Teas, tees, tis ("s), tease
Sea, see, si (same musical note)
Seas, sees, sis ("), seize
Dough, doe, do (different musical note)
Oh, owe, zero
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| 1108.14 | | GIDDAY::BURT | My wings are like a shield of steel | Tue Jul 19 1994 22:38 | 7 |
| re<<< Note 1108.13 by JRDV04::DIAMOND "$ SET MIDNIGHT" >>>
> Yews, ewes, use
Yews, ewes, use, youse - youse guys in a wise guise :^)
Chele
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| 1108.15 | | DOCTP::BINNS | | Mon Jan 09 1995 09:58 | 4 |
| and ghoti is only a word to George Bernard Shaw -- and he *created* it
to be a homophone for fish, so it's hardly fair to cite it.
Kit
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| 1108.16 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Mon Jan 09 1995 17:39 | 3 |
| I never said ghoti was a word, only a homonym.
Though not quite a pun, it should be appreciated
by anyone with a taste for puns. Tioti!
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| 1108.17 | sight, site, cite | RANGER::BRADLEY | Chuck Bradley | Mon Jul 31 1995 11:02 | 1 |
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| 1108.18 | Just discovered.. | KERNEL::MORRIS | Which universe did you dial? | Tue Aug 01 1995 01:07 | 6 |
| Since I came across it in a novel and have been dying to use it ever
since:
wyte [and I admit I had to look it up to be sure I'd guessed rite ;-)]
white
wight
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