Talk:Homophone

message: It might be vivid, if I could decipher it.
Hopiakuta 23:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...[[vivid]] [[example]],..." 

message: He died at 40 odd years, in his berth (of a ship? of a train?), someone told the sexton who then rang the bell.  
Homonyms in use are "berth/birth", "tolled/told".  It doesn't make sense to say that "his death which happened in his birth", so the listener has to do a mental retalk.  It makes a little more sense to say the sexton "told" the bell, but again we have to do the double take and translate it as "tolled" (announcing his death).
Jarich 13:45, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation 

message: sore/saw
In some places, these are indeed two words that are pronounced the same. However, people with the "Chicago" or "no accent" do not pronounce these words the same. Saw is not said with an "r" sound in it. This example should be eliminated to avoid confusing some users. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.121.65.30 (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I have removed the following.
* do, due
* weather, whether
* which, witch
* whirred, word
These are not homphones for everyone. Jimp 00:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A homophone is a word that, regardless of spelling, is pronounced in the same way as another word with a different meaning. Thus pray and prey are homophones, but so too are ball (spherical object) and ball (dance). Furthermore, homophony does not have to apply universally: there are many instances of word pairs that are homophonous for the speakers of one language variety but not for those of another. Thus do and due are normally homophonous in American English (/du:/)), but not in most accents of British English (/du:/), /dju:/); fort and fought are largely homophonous in British English (/fɔ:t/)), but not in most accents of American English (/fɔɹt/), /fɔ:t/). -- Picapica (talk) 04:43, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed examples 

message: Happen to be quite drunk but am resonably shore (lol) that there is a mistake on the venn diagram; i think tire (car wheel) should be tyre (car wheel). (unsigned)
I agree, tire is a poor example of a Homonym as in British English it is a Heterograph. In US English tire does indeed mean both a car wheel and fatigue, but in British English tire only means fatigue, instead a car wheel is a tyre. Another example of this is US English check/check, British English check/cheque : verify/form of payment. (LittleGreenGirlFromMars (talk) 17:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Concerning tire: the article is about homophony, not homonymy. -- Picapica (talk) 04:49, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but in the Venn diagram in this article the example given in the overlap between 'Same pronunciation' and 'Same spelling' is inevitably a homonym and "tire" is a poor choice as it only works in U.S. English. Better examples might be "skate - glide on ice" / "skate - type of fish" or "ball - formal party" / "ball - spherical body"? JezGrove (talk) 21:00, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It's a poor diagram, and should use universal examples.Halbared (talk) 21:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  possible mistake 

message: The link http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/multinyms.html in English section of "Number of homophones" section isn't valid anymore. This will require to reword the whole section. Should it be removed or different list be found (I couldn't find any). Dwellee (talk) 15:03, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Wayback Machine has the page. Feel free to reword text - the url shouldn't be listed directly in the text. Kirin13 (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of homophones 

message: Think the beer-can/bacon "in certain accents" is too much of a stretch?  ―cobaltcigs 01:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You would have to be familiar with Jamaican English to get the similarity, which might be beyond the scope of this article in terms of international clarity. But yes, it's a great meme. JezGrove (talk) 21:06, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

text: See Face–near merger. It's also possible in Geordie. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 09:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Known meme

message: We should discuss whether tonal languages such as Chinese regard otherwise identical syllables with different tones as homophones, and the cultural role of homophone wordplay. --Daviddwd (talk) 20:44, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. The discussion could include information from / link to other related articles such as Euphemisms for Internet censorship in China, for example. JezGrove (talk) 21:22, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese and tonal languages 

message: * Does homophone apply to words sounding the same but are of two different languages. Qwepo (talk) 18:07, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not normally how the word is used, but one could describe two such words as homophonous. Bondegezou (talk) 18:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Between different languages

message: Carat and carrot? --179.26.220.123 (talk) 02:46, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This depends on dialect. It should be replaced. Nardog (talk) 06:19, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you sure? 

message: On that venn diagram, where would aluminium/aluminum fall? Unlike sulfur/sulphur there is a difference in pronunciation but it’s tiny. It doesn’t seem right to say “‘aluminium’ is a synonym for ‘aluminum’” because they’re really the same word.
Other examples similar: spelled/spelt, burned/burnt, &c. of these forms of past tense. 2601:1C2:5000:8CC7:9889:D50D:1D5C:B135 (talk) 02:17, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where do aluminium/aluminum fall?