Homophonic Monday - U, V, W, X and Nothing for Z

My NaNo word count stands at...(drum roll please) 22,258.

This is the end of Homophonic Monday. I hope, if nothing more it's been a bit humorous and/or interesting.

You're sure to be able to find your way, unlike those in the days of yore, or wore armor when they went to war; the compasses went crazy!



unix, eunuchs
URL, e’er
use, ewes, yews
urn, earn, erne

vail, vale, veil
vain, vane, vein
valance, valence
valiance, vaiants
variance, variants
vary, very
vellum, velum
veracious, voracious
verdure, verger
verses, versus
versed, verst
vial, vile, viol
vice, vise
villain, villain
viscous, viscus

wacks, wax, whacks
wade, weighed
wail, wale, whale
wain, wane
waist, waste
wait, weight
waive, wave
waiver, waver
Wales, whales
walk, wok
war, wore
ward, warred
ware, wear, were, we’re, where
warn, worn
warrantee, warranty
wart, wort
warship, worship
watt, what
way, weigh, whey
we, wee, whee
weak, week
weald, wheeled, wield
wean, ween
weather, whether
weave, we’ve
we’d, weed
weir, we’re
weld, welled
we’ll, wheal, wheel
wen, when
were, whir
wet, whet
which, witch
whig, wig
while, wile
whiled, wild
whin, win, wynn
whine, wine
whined, wind, wined
whirl, whorl
whirled, whorled, world
whirred, word
whish, wish
white, wight, wite
whit, wit
whither, wither
whoa, woe
whole, hole
wholly, holy
whop, wop
whore, hoar
whored, hoard, horde
who’s, whose
why, whye
whys, wise
wield, wheeled
wind, wined
winds, wins, winze
won, one
won’t, wont
wood, would
worst, wurst
wrack, rack
wrap, rap
wrapped, rapt
wreak, reek
wrecks, rex
wrens, rends
wrest, rest
wretch, retch
wright, write, right
wring, ring
wringer, ringer
writing, righting
wrote, rote
wry, rye

xero, zero
xi, psy


yack, yak
y’alll, yawl
yap, yapp
yew, ewe
yews, ewes
yoke, yolk
you’ll yule
yore, your, you’re

Homophonic Monday - T

There were tense moments when they tried to set up their tents.

T
tacet, tacit
tach, tack, taque
tacked, tact
tacks, tax
tail, , tale
tailer, tailor
taper, tapir
tare, tear
tarry, terry
taupe, tope
taut, taught
tea, tee, ti (so, la, ti)
teal, teil
team, teem
tear, tier
teas, tease, tees
teat, teet
tel, tell
tends, tens
tenner, tenor
tenser, tensor
tents, tense
tern, terne, turn
ternary, tunery
Thai, tie, tye
the, thee
their, there, they’re
theirs, there’s
threw, through, thru
throe, throw
throes, throws
throne, thrown
thyme, time
tic, tick
tics, ticks, tix
tide, tied
tighten, titan
timber, timbre
tire, tyre
to, too, two
toad, toed, towed
toady, tody
tocsin, toxin
toe, tow
toke, toque
told, tolled
tole, toll
ton, tonne, tun
tongue, tung
tool tule, tulle
toon, tune
tor, tore
tort, torte
tough, tuff
tracked, tract
trader, traitor
tray, trey
troop, troupe
trussed, trust
tucks, tux

Homophonic Monday - S

shear, sheer, shears, sheers

Looking down the face of the sheer cliff, he took his shears and cut the sheer fabic into to strips. Before he started lowering himself down he said, "Sheers to you!" (ooooo, me bad.)


S
sac, sack, sacque
saccharin, saccharine
sachet, sashay
sacks, sacs, sax
sale, sail
salter, psalter
sane, seine
saner, seiner
satire, satyr
saver, savor
sawed, sod
scarf, scarph
scend,send
scene, seen
scent, cent, sent
scull, skull
sea, see
seal, seel
sealing, ceiling
seam, seem
seamen, semen
seams, seems
sear, seer, sere
seas, sees, seize
season, seisin
sects, sex
seed, cede
seeder, cedar
seeding, ceding
seek, Sikh
sell, cell
seller, cellar
sense, scents, cents
senses, census
sensor, censer
sequence, sequents
serf, surf
serge, surge
serial, cereal
series, Ceres
serous, cirrus
session, cession
set, sett
sew, so, sol, (la, ti, do) sow
sewer, sower
sewer, suer
sewn, sown
shake, sheik
she’ll, shill
shear, sheer
shear, sheer
shears, sheers
sheave, shiv
shew, shoe, shoo,
shier, shyer, shire
shone, shown
shoot, chute
sic, sick
sics, six
sigh, psi
sighed, side
sigher, sire
sighs, size
sight, site, cite
sign, sine
signet, cygnet
sink, sync
Sioux, sou, sough, sue, Sue
slay, sleigh, sley
sleight, slight
slew, slough, slue
sloe, slow
soak, soke
soar, sore
soared, sword
socks, sox
sol, sole, soul
solace, soulless
sold, soled, souled
some, sum
son, sun
sonny, sunny
soot, suit
sordid, sorted
spade, spayed
specs, specks
spoor, spore
staff, staph
staid, stayed
stair, stare
stake, steak
statice, status
stationary, stationery
steal, steel
step, steppe
stile, style
stoop, stoup
storey, story
straight, strait
succor, sucker
suede, swayed
summary, summery
sundae, Sunday
surplice, surplus
swat, swot
sweet, suite
symbol, cymbal

Homophonic Monday - R

Wrapped in her wrap, she rapped at the door, waiting in rapt attention.

R
rabbet, rabbit
rack, wrack
racket, racquet
radical, radicle
rail, rale
rain, reign, rein
raise, rays, raze
raiser, razer, razor
rancor, ranker
rang, wrang
rap, wrap
rapped, rapt, wrapped
ray, re (do, re, mi)
read, red, redd
read, rede, reed
reading, reeding
ready, reddy
real, reel
recede, reseed
receipt, reseat
reck, wreck
readout, redoubt
reek, wreak
reference, referents
relaid, relayed
rends, wrens
residence, residents
resinate, resonate
resisters, resistors
rest, wrest
retch, wretch
review, revue
rex, wrecks
rheumy, roomie, roomy
rho, roe, row
rhumb, rum
rhyme, rime
rigger, rigor
right, rite, write, wright
righting, writing
rind, rynd
ring, wring
ringer, wringer
riot, ryot
rise, ryes
road, rode, rowed
roam, Rome
roc, rock
roes, rose, rows
roil, royal
role, roll
roo roux, rue
rood, rude, rued
roomer, rumor
root, route
rot, wrought
rote, wrote
rout, route
rouse, rows
rued, rude
rues, ruse
ruff, rough
rung, wrung
rye, wry

Homophonic Monday - P and Q

The presidents use precedence to set precedents that become a yoke upon the people.

P
paced, paste
packed, pact
packs, pax
paean, peon
pail, pale
pain, pane
pair, pare, pear
palate, pallet, palette
pall, Paul, pawl
parish, perish
parity, parody
pascal, paschal
passable, passible
passed, past
paten, patten
patience, patients
pause, paws
pea, pee
peak, peek, peke, pique
peal, peel
pearl, purl
peas, peace, pees, piece
pect, pecked
pedal, peddle
peeking, Peking
peer, pier
pence, pents
pend, penned
pendant, pendent
pendants, pendence
pends, pens
penitence, penitents
per, purr
petrel, petrol
pharaoh, farrow
phase, faze
phew, few
phial, file
philter, filter
phlox, flocks
pi, pie
pica, pike
picks, pix, pyx
picnic, pyknik
pidgin, pigeon
pieced, piste
pincer, pincher, pinscher
pinion, pinon (nut)
pistil, pistol
place, plaice
plain, plane
plaintiff, plaintive
plait, plate
planar, planer
plantar, planter
pleas, please
pleural, plural
plum, plumb
pocks, pox
pokey, poky
polar, poler
pole, Pole, poll
poled, polled
poof, pouffe
poor, pore, pour
popery, potpourri
populace, populous
pores, pours
practice, practice
praise, prays, preys
pray, prey
precedence, precedents, presidents
premier, premiere
presence, presents
pride, pried
pries, prize
prince, prints
principal, principle
prior, pryer
profit, prophet
pros, prose
Psalter, salter
psi, sigh, xi
puttee, putty


Q
quarts, quarz
quay, cay
quean, queen
queue, cue
quince, quints
quire, choir
quoin, coin

Homophonic Monday - N and O

Not for naught the naval man tied the knot while staring at his navel.


N
nap, knap
naught, not, knot
naval, navel
nave, knave
naw, gnaw
nay, neigh
neap, neep
need, knead
new, gnu, knew
nice, gneiss
nick, knick
nickers, knickers
nigh, nye
night, knight
night, knight
nit, knit
no, know
nob, knob
nock, knock
nod, gnawed
noes, nose, knows
none, nun
not, knot

O
o, oh, owe

odder, otter
ode, owed
offal, awful
ohs, owes
one, won
oohs, ooze
oppose, appose
oracle, auricle
or, oar, ore
oral, aural
ordinance, ordnance
oriole, aureole
ought, aught
our, hour
overdo, overdue
oversea, oversee

Homophonic Monday - M

At the morning the men mustered, only to go into mourning over the loss of their mustard.

M
mach, mock
macks, max
madder, matter
magnate, magnet
maid, made
mail, male
main, Maine, mane
maize, maze, mase, Mays
mall, maul, moll
manner, manor
mantel, mantle
marc, mark, marquee
mare, mayor
marquee, marquis
marry, Mary, merry
marshal, martial
marten, martin
maser, mze
mask, masque
massed, mast
mat, Matt, matte
maybe, may be
me, mi (as in do, re, mi)
mead, meed
mean, mien
meat, meat, mete
meatier, meteor
medal, meddle,
men’s mends
metal, mettle
meter, metre
mewl, mule
mews, muse
micks, mix
middy, midi
might, mite
mil, mill
mild, miled
millenary, miniery
mince, mints
mind, mined
miner, minor
minks, minx
missal, missile
missed, mist
misses, Mrs.
moan, mown
moat, mote
mode, mowed
moir, moray
mold, mould
mood, mooed
moor, more, Moore, Moor
moose, mousse
moral, morel
mordant, mordent
morn, mourn
morning, mourning
mortar, morter
mose, mows
mucous, mucus
muscle, mussel
mussed, must, musth
mustard, mustered
mutual, mutuel

Homophonic Monday - L

The Lapps who ran relay laps swore they won but a time lapse camera showed one of them had a relapse.

L
laager, lager
lac, lack
lacks, lax
ladder, latter
lade, laid
lain, lane
lair, layer
lam, lamb
lama, llama (unless pronounced like it is in Spanish, yama)
lance, launce
lap, Lapp
laps, Lapps, lapse
larva, lava (a stretch)
lase, lays, laze, leis
laser, lazar
lay, lei, ley
lea, lee, li
leach, leech
lead, led
leader, lieder, liter
leaf, lief
leak, leek
lean, lene, lien
Lear, leer, lehr
leas, lees
leased, least
leased, least
leaver, lever
ledger, leger
lends, lens
lessen, lesson
lesser, lessor
levee, levy
liable, libel
liar, lyre
lice, lyse
licence, license
lichen, liken
licht, licked
licker, liquor
lickerish, licorice
lie, lye
lieu, loo, Lou
lightening, lightning
limbs, limns
linch, lynch
links, lynx
literal, littoral
lo, low
load, lode, lowed
loan, lone
loath, loathe
loch, lock
lochs, locks, lox
loon, lune
loop, loupe
loos, lose
loose, luse
loot, lute
lumbar, lumber

Homophonic Monday - I, J, and K

That man seeking about in the nave at night was not a knight but a knave.

I
I, eye, aye
I’d, eyed,
idle, idol, idyll
ileum, ilium
I’ll, aisle, isle
illicit, elicit
illusive, allusive
immanent, imminent
immerge, emerge
impassable, impassible
in, inn
inc., ink
incite, insight
independence, independents
indict, indite
indigence, indigents
inequity, iniquity
infuser, infusor
innocence, innocents
instance, instants
insure, ensure
intense, intents
irrupt, erupt
its, it’s


Jjam, jamb
jealousy, jalousie,
jeans, genes
jewel, joule
jibe, gibe
Jim, gym
jinn, gin
jinks, jinx
jire, gyre
juggler, jugular (arrrg!)


Kkarat, carat
kart, cart
kernel, colonel
key, cay, quay
kew, cue
kite, kyte
klick, click
knap, nap
knave, nave
knead, need, kneed
knee, nee
knew, gnu, new
knick, nick
knickers, nickers
knight, night
knit, nit
knob, nob
knock, nock
knot, not, naught
knotty, naughty
know, no
knows, nose, noes
kraft, craft
kohl, coal

Homophonic Monday - H

Hail! to the hale harrier, Hairy Harry, who is hairier than a woolly mammoth, yet looks handsome when he rides in his master's hansom.

H
hail, hale
hair, hare
hairier, harrier
hairy, Harry, harry
hall, haul
hallo, hallow (hmmmm)
halve, have
handsome, hansom
hangar, hanger
hardy, hearty
Harold, herald
hart, heart
hay, hey
hays, haze
he’d, heed, heid
he’ll, hill
heal, heel, he’ll
hear, here
heard, herd
heir, air, etc. (see air)
heroin, heroine
hertz, (as is mega or as in rental car?) hurts
hew, hue, Hugh
hi, hie, high,
hide, hied
higher, hire
him, hymn
hissed, hist
ho, hoe
hoar, whore
hoard, horde, whored
hoarse, horse
hoc, hock
hoes, hose
hold, holed
hole, whole
holey, holy, wholly
hoo, who
hoop, whoop (don’t know about that one)
hostel, hostile
hour, our
humerus, humorous
hurdle, hurtle

Homophonic Monday - G

The old gnu knew that the news about the new gnus wasn't good.

G
gael, gale,
gaff, gaffe
gage, gauge
gait, gate
gaited, gated
galley, gally
galop, gallop
gamble, gambol
gang, gangue
gays, gaze
gel, jell
gene, jean
gibe, jibe
gild, gilled, guild
gilt, guilt
gin, jinn (or djinn)
glair, glare
glutenous, glutinous
gnar, knar
gnaw, naw
gnawed, nod
gneiss, nice
gnomic, nomic
gnu, knew, new
gnus, news
goaled, gold
gored, gourd
gorgeous, gorges (watch out below!)
gorilla, guerrilla
grade, grayed
graft, graphed
grate, great
grayed, grade
grays, graze
grease, Greece
greave, grieve
grill, grille
grip, grippe
grisly, grizzly
groan, grown
groom, grume
guarantee, guaranty
guessed, guest
guide, guyed
guise, guys
gunnel, gunwale
gym, Jim
gyre, jire

Homophonic Monday - F

They sent a fax about the facts regarding the furor over the fuehrer after his foe found him in possession of a faux faun's fawn.

F

facts, fax
fail, faille
fain, fane, feign
faint, feint
fairing, faring
fairy, ferry
faker, fakir
fare, fair
farrow, pharaoh
fatalist, fatelist
fate, fete
fated, feted
faun, fawn
faux, foe
fay, Faye, fey
fays, faze, phase
fazed, phased
fear, fere
feat, feet
fees, feeze
fends, fens
fern, firn
ferrate, ferret
ferule, ferrule
feted, fetid
feudal, futile
few, phew
fie, phi
file, phial
filet, fillet
fill, faille
filter, philter
fin, Finn
finally, finely
find, fined
finish, Finnish
fir, fur, furr
fisher, fissure
flacks, flax
flair, flare
flea, flee
flecks, flex
flew, flu, flue
flier, flyer
Flo, floe, flow
floc, flock
flocks, phlox
flour, flower
foaled, fold
for, fore, four
forbear, forebear
forego, forgo
foreward, forward
foreword, forward
formally, formerly
fort, forte
forth, fourth
foul, fowl
‘fraid, frayed
franc, frank
frays, phrase
frees, freeze, frieze
friar, frier, fryer
fungous, fungus
furor, fuehrer (as in "We heil! Heil! Right in der Fuehrer’s face)
furs, furze
fussed, fust

Homophonic Monday - E

We use ewes for their wool, while ewes use yews for shade. (Ahhh, yous guys crack me up!)

E
earn, erne, urn
Eaves, eves
edition, addition
eek, eke
eerie, Erie
e’er, ere, err, air, heir
effect, affect
eight, ate
elicit, illicit
elude, allude
elusive, allusive
emerge, immerge
eminent, immanent, imminent
ensure, insure
epic, epoch
equivalence, equivalents
errant, arrant
erupt, irrupt
eruption, irruption
eunuchs, unix
ewe, yew, you
ewes, use, yews
exercise, exorcise
exceed, accede
except, accept
existence, existents
extravagance, extravagants
eye, I, aye
eyelet, islet
eyed, I’d

Homophonic Monday - D

I heard her warming up her voice, "Do, re, mi...." Then she burst into a song about a doe rolling in dough.

D
dam, damn
dammed, damned
dain, Dane, deign
darn, darne
days, daze
deem, deme
dean, dene
dear, deer
defused, diffused
delinquence, delinquents
dense, dents
dental, dentil
dependence, dependents
depravation, deprivation
descent, dissent
desert, dessert
devel, devil, delve
deviance, deviants
devisor, divisor
dew, do, due
dewed, dude
djinn, gin
die, dye
died, dyed
dike, dyke
dine, dyne
dire, dyer
disburse, disperse
disc, disk
discreet, discrete
discussed, disgust
dissidence, dissidents
do (as in do, re, mi) doe, dough
doc, dock
does (as in deer) doughs, doze
done, dun
donjon, dungeon
door, dor
dos, dues
dost, dust
dour, dower
douse, dowse
dowager, dowitcher
draft, draught
dray, drey
droop, drupe
dual, duel
ducked, duct
dyeing, dying

Homophonic Monday - C

I can't make sense, of the scents. But for two cents I'll tell you that to use a censer is "to cense."


C
cache, cash
cached, cashed
cachou, cashew
calendar, calendar, colander (my add on)
calk, caulk
call, caul, cawl, col
callous, callus
calyx, calyx
cam, camb
canape, canopy
cane, cain, Caine (as in the Mutiny)
cannon, canon
cant, can’t
canter, cantor
canvas, canvass
capital, capitol
caret, carrot, carat, karat
carol carrel, charol
carpal carpel
carry, Carie
cart, carte, kart
cask, casque
cast, caste
caster, castor
caudal, caudle
cause, caws
cay, key, quay
cedar, ceder, seeder
cede, seed
ceding, seeding
ceil, seal, seel
ceiling, sealing
cel, cell, sell
cellar, seller
cense, cents, scents
censer, censor, senser, sensor
census, senses
cent, scent, sent
cense, cents, scents, sense
cerate, serrate
cere, sear, seer, sere
cereal, serial
Ceres, series
cession, session
cete, seat
chalk, chock
chance chants
chard, charred
chased, chaste
cheap, cheep
check, Czech
chews, choose
Chic, sheik
Chile, chili, chilly
chitin, chiton
choc, chock
choir, quire
choler, collar
choral, coral
chorale, corral
chord, cord, cored
chordate, cordate
chott, shot
chough, chuff (hmmmm)
chronical, chronicle
chucker chukker
chute, shoot
cirrus, serous
cite(d), sight(ed), site(d)
cites, sights, sites
citing, sighting, siting
clack, clacque
clause, claws
clew, clue
click, clique
climb, clime
close, clothes
coal, cole, kohl
coaled, cold
coarse, corse, course
coat, cote
coax, cokes
cocks, cox
coco, cocoa
coddling, codling
coffer, cougher
coign, coin, quoin
collard, collared
colonel, kernel
come, cum
comedy, comity
complacence, compaisance
competence, competents
complacence, complaisance
complement, compliment
con, conn
conceded, conceited
concent, consent
concenter, consenter
conch, conk
concord, conquered
conscious, conscience
continence, continents
coo, coup
cop, kop
copped, copt
cops, copse
coquet, coquette
corn, corps
correspondence, correspondents
cosher, kosher
cosign, cosine
council, counsel
councilor, counselor
cousin, cozen
courtesy, curtesy
coward, cowered, cowherd
craft, Kraft
crape, crepe
crater, krater
Crays, craze
creak, creek
crewed, crude
crewel, cruel
crews, cruise, cruse
cubical, cubicle
cubit, qubit (a quantum bit)
cue, queue
currant, current
curser, cursor
cygnet, signet
cymbal, symbol

Homophonic Monday - B

Please bear with me, but I can't stand a bare bear that scrapes the bark off a tree while the dog barks at it.

B
bail, bale
bailee, bailey, bailie
bailer, bailor, baler
bailing, baling
bair, bare, bear
bait, bate
baited, bated
baiting, bating
baize, bays, beys
bald, balled, bawled
ball, bawl
balm, bomb
baloney, Bologna
band, banned
bans, banns, bands
bar, barre
bare, bear (please, bear with me) bear (as in grizzly)
bard, barred
bark, (like a dog) bark (on a tree) barque
baron, barren
Barry, berry, bury
barrel, beryl
basal, basil
base, bass (low note), bass (fish)
based, baste
bases, basis, basses
bask, Basque
bat, batt
baud, bawd
bay, bey
bazaar, bizarre
be, bee
beach, beech
bean, been
beat, beet
beau, bow (with which you shoot an arrow or how you tie your shoe) bow (to bend at the waist) bow (the front of a boat)
beaut, butte
been, bin
beer, bier
beetle, betel (nut) Beatle (one of the Fab Four)
bel, bell, belle
belligerence, belligerents
benzene, benzine
berg, burg
berger, burger, burgher
bergle, burgle
berth, birth
besot, besought
better, bettor
bi, by, bye, buy
bight, bite, byte
billed, build
bird, burred
bit, bitt
blew, blue
bloc, block
bloat, blote
boar, Boer, boor, bore
board, bored
boarder, border
bobbin, bobbing (that’s a stretch)
Bocks, box
bode, bowed
bogey, bogie, bogy
bold, bolled, bowled
bolder, boulder
bole, boll, bowl
boos, booze
bootee, booty
born, borne, bourn, Bourne (Identity)
borough, burro, burrow
bough, bow
bouillon, bullion
boy, buoy
brae, bray
braid, brayed
brain, brane
braise, brays, braze
brake, break
breach, breech
bread, bred
bread, bred
brede, breed
brewed, brood
brews, bruise
bridal, bridle
broach, brooch
broom, brougham
brows, browse
brr, burr
bruit, brut, brute
buccal, buckle
build, billed
bundt, bunt
burger, burgher
bus, buss
bused, bussed, bust
but, butt
buy, by, bye
buyer, byre

Homophonic Monday - A

The English language is fascinating and confusing. Homophones are perhaps my favorite group of words. Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different spellings and different meanings or words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and may have different pronunciations. Got that?

Because I will be away for the next couple of months and may not get to blog much, if at all, I have decided to leave you with a list of homophones. I doubt seriously it is a complete list, but it’s a good start. Also, some words, depending on how you pronounce them, might not seem like true homophones, but they are so close I’ve included them anyway. What the heck, the more the merrier.

And so, every Monday until I run out of letters, you can look forward to lists of words. Enjoy. Oh…and feel free to add any you can think of. I will leave it up to you to research definitions. It would be neat if you left a comment in the form of a sentence that uses homophones.

Are you ready?

I took a deep breath of air ere I began to read Jane Eyre. But I did err, as e'er I do, for I forgot I was not heir to that book.

A
a while, awhile
accede, exceed
accept, except
accessary, accessory
acclamation, acclimation
acts, ax
ad, add
adds, ads, adze
ade, aid, aide
addition, edition
adherence, adherents
admittance, admittants
adolescence, adolescents
advise, advice
aerie, airy,
aerial, areal, Ariel
aero, arrow
affect, effect
affluent, effluent
aids, aides, AIDS
ail, ale
air, e’er, ere, err, heir, Eyre (as in Jane)
aisle, I’ll, isle
all, awl
all ready, already
allot, a lot, alot
all together, altogether
allowed, aloud
allude, elude
allusion, illusion, elusion
alms, arms
aloud, allowed
alter, alter
amend, emend
an, Ann
analyst, annalist
ant, aunt
ante, anti, auntie
antecedence, antcedents
anyone, any one
anyway, any way
apatite, appetite
appose, oppose
arc, ark
are, hour, our
armer, armor
arrant, errant
ascent, assent
ascent, assent
assistance, assistants
ate, eight
attendance, attendants
auger, augur
aught, ought
auk, awk
aural, oral
aureole, oriole
auricle, oracle
away, aweigh
awed, odd
awful, offal
awhile, a while
axes, axis
axel, axle
ay, aye, eye, I