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Lisa

Lisa Report 7 Oct 2009 01:49

Hair /Hare

Haribo

Haribo Report 6 Oct 2009 22:27

Boar..........Bore

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 6 Oct 2009 00:04

two similar words,

Goal, a aim in life, or a goal as in football..

Gaol,........ a prison.......(jail)

Bob
or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick?

stick..... a device for beating someone/ thing

stick....... to glue something together........

Gillian Jennifer

Gillian Jennifer Report 5 Oct 2009 23:30

pail/pale

Gillian Jennifer

Gillian Jennifer Report 5 Oct 2009 23:30

pee/pea

Janice

Janice Report 5 Oct 2009 22:52

ure
your
you're

Gillian Jennifer

Gillian Jennifer Report 5 Oct 2009 22:46

Your a clever bunch of folk!!

Gillian Jennifer

Gillian Jennifer Report 5 Oct 2009 22:45

Heard/herd

Janice

Janice Report 5 Oct 2009 22:34

saw
sore
soar

Wildgoose

Wildgoose Report 5 Oct 2009 22:02

Roar
Raw

jan50

jan50 Report 5 Oct 2009 21:28

here
hear

Paula

Paula Report 2 Oct 2009 21:24

sorry, had to add the obvious! ....

Jeans - Genes

Paula

Paula Report 2 Oct 2009 21:22

slow - sloe

tied - tide

not - knot

read - reed

read - red

jan50

jan50 Report 2 Oct 2009 21:18

rime
rhyme

Paula

Paula Report 2 Oct 2009 21:16

what - watt

wait - weight

sign - sine

plum - plumb

jan50

jan50 Report 2 Oct 2009 20:56

flower
flour

Helen1959

Helen1959 Report 2 Oct 2009 20:41

Aid,
Aide

altar
Alter

Arc
Ark

Aural
oral

bazaar
bizarre

berth
birth

brews
bruise

carat
carrot
caret
karat

chute
shoot

crews
cruise

gored
gourd

idle
idol

colonel
kernel

manner
manor

moose
mousse

palate
palette
pallet

patience
patients

profit
prophet

slay
sleigh

toad
towed

wail
whale

which
witch

you'll
Yule

I've been thinking of these all day.

These words are actually called Homophones.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot.

mousse

Haribo

Haribo Report 2 Oct 2009 15:56

floor
flaw

Thistledown

Thistledown Report 2 Oct 2009 15:53

Boar.
Bore.

Haribo

Haribo Report 2 Oct 2009 15:32

blue blew