Homophone word game

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Mist / missed



    Yes, and in the English mist they missed a lot of places with the old mower.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    rode / road

    How about the guy who rode his lawn tractor down the road from IA to WI to visit his brother?

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    I love all these great, hilarious sentences! You gals are so clever. Smile

    doze / does

    Bambi and his pals often doze happily with their mothers, the does, in the woods near my house.

    (While I do-si-do with my dosimeter and sip a Dos Equis before settling in with a Dos Passos novel.)

  • Angelice
    Angelice Member Posts: 1,116

    peel pill

    had to peel the foil on the  packet, to get the pill out

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    Angelice: That's so funny that in Australia those two words are pronounced alike. Here in the U.S. they are totally different. When I was in AU last year, I thought the accents were awesome!

    might / mite 

    I might see a mite if I had a magnifying glass.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Muscle / mussel



    It takes some muscle to open a mussel with a knife.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    sighed / side

    I sighed when I felt the sharp pain in my side.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Dependent / dependant



    Claiming your dog as a dependant on your tax return is dependent on how much he earns at his summer job.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    hahahaha!

    wood / would 

    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Lien / lean



    I wonder if you can put liens on a new building that leans.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    rue / roux / 'roo

    You'll rue the day you feed roux to a 'roo.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    Too funny :)

    mumu / moo moo

    Does this mumu make me look like a Moo Moo?

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    Smile    must / mussed

    I must comb my hair, it's all mussed.

  • Angelice
    Angelice Member Posts: 1,116

    fool full

    he was a fool to think the cookie jar  was full

    haha windlass  its funny  its like mum and mom kind of

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    mote / moat

    A mote of dust floated over the moat.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Floe / flow / Flo



    Flo watched the ice floe as the flow of tourists rushed to her side of the cruise ship.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    bored / bored / board

    I got bored watching, while the termite bored into the board. It was like watching paint dry.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    cede / seed

    Content with second, I cede top seed.

  • scooter-12
    scooter-12 Member Posts: 26,606

    shoo / shoe

    Shoo fly before I whack you with my shoe.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    pact / packed

    Let's make a pact to be packed the night before we leave on vacation.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Flair / flare / flayer



    She lit the flare with a certain flair and it soared into the flayer. (upper layer of the ionosphere)

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    crummy / crumby

    It's crummy when your nice flaky pastry leaves you all crumby.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    whole / hole

    Did you eat the whole bucket of donut holes?  Tongue out 

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    ate / eight

    I only ate eight donut holes!

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    sees / seize

    If that cop sees you eating donuts, s/he may seize them.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    hair / hare

    There is a lot of fluffy hair on that hare.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    gin / Djinn

    If you play gin with a Djinn, let him win!

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    Nice one, badger!

    shoot / chute

    Shoot the cannonballs down the chute!

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    cannon / Canon

    Shall I shoot with the cannon or the Canon?

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Rain / reign



    The king began his reign on a day filled with rain.