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Unit 3. Homonyms

Homonyms can be subdivided into homographs and homophones. Homographs are words which are written in the same way but have different meanings. Compare bow in “He took a bow /bau/ at the end of the concert” and 'He was wearing a bow /bəu/ tie'. Homophones are words which are pronounced in the same way but are spelt differently, e.g. bow as in “He took a bow” and bough, “the bough of a tree”.

Here are some more examples of homographs:

I live in the north of England, /lıv/

Your favourite pop star is singing live on TV tonight. /laıv/

I read in bed each night. /ri:d/

I read War and Peace last year. /red/

The lead singer in the group is great. /li:d/

Lead pipes are dangerous. /led/

The wind blew the tree down. /wınd/

Don't forget to wind your watch. /waınd/

I wound my watch last night. /waund/

He suffered a terrible wound in the war. /wu:nd/

Some students at Oxford spend more time learning to row well than studying. /rəu/

They shared a flat for ages until they had a row over money and split up. /rau/

This book is called English Vocabulary in Use. /ju:s/

You must know how to use words as well as their meaning. /ju:z/

They lived in a large old house. /haus/

The buildings house a library and two concert halls as well as a theatre. /hauz/

The sow has five piglets. /sau/

The farmers sow the seeds in the spring. /səu/

I bathed the baby this morning. /ba:θt/

We bathed in the sea every day when we were on holiday. /beıðd/

Here are some of the many examples of homophones in English:

air/heir

faze/phase

groan/grown

might/mite

pane/pain

pray/prey

right/rite/write

sent/scent

steak/stake

tire/tyre

weather/whether

aloud/allowed

floe/flow

hoarse/horse

mown/moan

peal/peel

raise/rays

rough/ruff

sight/site

tea/tee

toe/tow

whine/wine

dough/doe

flu/flew

its/it's

our/hour

place/plaice

read/reed

sale/sail

sole/soul

there/their/they're

waist/waste

fare/fair

grate/great

lays/laze

pale/pail

practise/practice

rein/rain

scene/seen

sought/sort

through/threw

wait/weight

3.1 How would you pronounce each of the underlined words in the sentences below? Choose a word with a similar sound from the brackets.

1. The girl I live with knows a good pub with live music. (dive/give)
2. The main househouses a collection of rare stamps. (mouse/rouse)
3. They bathed the children after they had bathed in the sea. (lathe/path)
4. You sow the seeds while I feed the sow. (cow/glow)
5. The violinist in the bow tie took a bow. (allow/flow)
6. He's the lead singer in the group 'Lead piping'. (head/deed)
7. What a row from the last house in the row! (plough/though)
8. Does he still suffer from his war wound? (found/mooned)
9. I wound the rope around the tree to strengthen it against the gale. (round/tuned)
10. It's quite hard to wind in the sails in this wind. (find/tinned)

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