Homophone word game
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eerie / eyrie
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wreck / rec
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week / weak
weekly / weakly
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flow / floe
sink / sync
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conk / conch
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bolder / boulder
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wheel / we'll
This one came to me while driving & listening to the radio: Cruz (the candidate) / Cruze (the Chevy he might drive) / cruise (how he might relax when the race is over) / crews (the people who run the party barge).
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incandescents / incandescence
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hanger / hangar
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road / rowed / rode
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wave / waive // waves / waives // waved / waived // waver / waiver
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immigrate / emigrate
immigrant / emigrant
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along those lines ...
imminent / eminent
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wear / where
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coo / coup
(Finding it so much harder to think of words that haven't been used over and over in this game!)
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very true...
bard / barred
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need a break / brake ? :-)
good night / knight LOL
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rapt / wrapped
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grip / grippe
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This word pair has been used going back to the early days of this game, in 2007, but I was told a little homophone-inspired joke yesterday, and thought it was worth repeating here:
There's a campaign going on to abolish pre-shredded cheese. Its slogan?
Make America Grate Again.0 -
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find / fined
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heed / he'd
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Am reading City of Bones by Michael Connelly. It contains this request for a cop to go look at a bone someone's dog dug up:
"So could you humor us and go check out this humerus?"
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Good one Badger!
phrase / frays
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seek / sikh
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IDK about you but I think about this game when homophones arise IRL.
war / wore
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Same here, badger. I make a note when I think of one, or run across an example in a book, but almost always find it's been used - like hoar / whore, inspired by your war / wore.
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Love the bumper sticker, badger!
sluice / slews
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