Homophone word game

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Nu / new / gnu / knew



    I knew there was a new member of Sigma Nu but I didn't know it was a gnu!

  • badger
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    Frank / franc

    Frank tipped the waiter a franc.

  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 18,108

    Marc tipped the waiter a mark. :)

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938

    :-)

    manors / manners

    People who grow up in manors tend to have nice manners.

  • pj12
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    Paned / pained



    I was really pained when he broke my paned glass window.

  • Tatina123
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    Toe, tow

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    tied / tide

    I tied the life preserver tightly around my midsection as the tide rose.

  • badger
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    based / baste

    Based on my mother's recipe, baste the turkey every half-hour.

  • pj12
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    Haul / hall



    It's a pain to have to have to haul a Christmas tree up the elevator and down the hall to my apartment.

  • badger
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    Ray / Raye / re

    Man Ray & Martha Raye sang do - re - mi.

  • windlass
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    you / yew / ewe

    Did you say my Taxotere treatment comes from a yew... or a ewe?
    Baaaaah.

  • badger
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    Louie's / Louise

    Is that Louie's or does it belong to Louise?

  • windlass
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    Rose / rose / rows / roes

    Rose rose to the occasion and now rows through Russia looking for exotic sturgeon roes.

  • badger
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    flower / flour

    Might one use a flower to make flour? 

    Hmmm, rose-scented tea cakes...

  • pj12
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    scent / sent 

    She sent her love a letter with a perfume scent. 

  • windlass
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    Leif / leaf

    Leif Ericson turned a new leaf in history.

  • badger
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    cash / cache

    Is there a stash of cash in the cache?

  • badger
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    pinion / pinyon

    Fix that rack & pinion steering problem before you crash the the car into a pinyon pine tree.

  • windlass
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    synch / sink

    If you lip synch and get caught, it could sink your singing career.

  • badger
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    caught / cot

    If you get caught, you may have to go to jail and sleep on a cot.

  • windlass
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    eve / Eve / eave

    On Christmas eve, little Eve spied an elf by the eave.
  • pj12
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    chased / chaste

    The lecherous old man chased the chaste young woman around and around the dessk. 

  • windlass
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    lyre / liar

    Don't fall for the musician playing the lyre so sweetly. He is a heartbreaker and a liar.

  • Angelice
    Angelice Member Posts: 1,116

    By buy





    I had to go by the fruit shop to buy watermelon

  • windlass
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    Moe / mow

    I will ask Moe to mow the lawn.

  • pj12
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    Sue / Sioux



    The Sioux tribe decided to sue the federal government to get back native lands.

  • windlass
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    Harry /hairy

    Prince Harry sure is a bit more hairy than the balding Prince Charles.

  • pj12
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    cereal / serial 

    The author worked on the serial to his book while munching cereal. 

  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 615

    flu/flue/flew

    The bird with the flu flew through my flue.

  • windlass
    windlass Member Posts: 1,813

    nein / nine

    Nein, Fraulein Schmidt, I did not eat nine pfeffernusen! (I only ate eight.)