Homophones to Read Aloud
Ewe mite sea sum inn hear.
Reed it, sew wee here the wards.
Eye no its -ment two aide awl off yew
too fined mower wear there e-roars
herd, butt knot scene.
Author notes
-ment is listed in Webster's and Oxford dictionary.
I was surprised to find so many! Seventy-five so far:
more keep coming. (This grew out of the course I teach at Allpoetry.)
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently-- Reed, Read Aloud, Allowed
We used to call them homonyms.
Ask if you want a translation.
Please tell me what you think
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Using To Ah Soles.
The pursuit of homophones is such a gay calling germinating no end of choice chuckles for both scribe and peruser.
Buy the whey. I´ve always wondered what a homonymph entailed.
They are a hassle to translate fromother tongues though Terry. I was looking for a Stephane Mallarme translation (the king of frogophones) and THAT wasn t easy.
gG
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gG
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Hay, oat's reel gneiss
to ketch yew hear!
Yore rite, grate hill-air-ity Hydes
inn homonymphs, Jung purr-haps,
err-ly weigh to caul thees wards,
instayed off gayphones.
Wander wye.
Buy daffy-niche-zens, too wards
that whee here the say-m
butt mien sum-thing ells. . .
There reel.
The Mallarme of Afternoon of a Faun?
Does a translation even exist?
Symbolism would be difficult.
Vraiement!
Assez difficile l'écrire
sans fautes délibérées!
Les avec, impossible!
Terry
This repetition was CAUSED by the very narrow reply box.
Assez difficile l'écrire
sans fautes délibérées!
Les avec, impossible!
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Absolutely delightful...
...dee's light full of fun. Isn't it a gas to juggle with words, especially homophones? Of all people, I should have a homo-phone to call you up on, but I don't. Suffice it to say here: Watt a homonymous pome!!!
Lad
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But SKINNY fun, perforce.
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It will not let me edit this narrow pillar, asking if I want to delete. BAH HUMBUG
So, not edited, is this a narrow minded message?
Just wanted to say I finallyuploaded a huge heap of homonyms --Lost count at two hundred. Not nearly all there are.
Dear and deer are not there.
Sweet and suite are not, either.
Whatever was I thinking?
Tyre (UK) and tire(US)
not, but tired I am!
It must have been fun or I'd have quit hours ago!
Packing it in.
Cheers,
Terry
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Fun but serious too
,,,,,,,Having problems with the narrow box again.
Any-hooo, Lad, with my thanks.
A lot of people are so sure the spellcheck software will locate all spelling mistakes, but not so. It only catches things that are misspelt. Homophones pass unnoticed because for what they really mean, their spelling is correct.
Sometimes they are very funny when the word chosen has a meaning the writer would not want. Orally it does not show but in print, when a politician is quoted it can be a hoot-- but only if the error is recognized.
It is getting to be that once a week someone somewhere is caught. In my local paper, the proofreader must be on 85-proof when several in a single article fit this description. Extreme, yes, but given time for a few old folks to die, we are, as a population, teetering on the crumbling edge of illiteracy.
Does anybody care? Not that it shows.
It really worries me when even teachers do not know.
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And fun too
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Ewe cleaver auld gall!
What can I say, Terry? Hilarious and awesome, and hilariously awesome. It's always so nice to see someone just sit down and have fun with the language.
Cheers,
Pie
language: 5, rhythm: 5, subject: 5, tone: 5, form: 5.
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Great fun!
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CPie,
It really was a hoot writing the small verse. That last line was a gift from my everlovin' Muse. You didn't think I was that "cleaver"? Wood bee nice! I cannot claim it.
The secret, we have to reset the parameters of the mind to open it to other spellings. After that, ta-DAA!
More of them for/four the homophone list now--I lost count at 130 words, to be/bee added.
The chart, still in progress is easy to find: Go to Classes in Allpoetry, find my name in the list of classes, call up the GrefStart webpage, click on Grefs 3, and it is in D3.
If you wait, tomorrow the list will be larger!
Since then the battle with the SP site and very narrow box goes on. It shouldn't bother me, but it does.
I am so glad you enjoyed it!
Terry
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Half ewe bean hat de sham pain a gain ?
or half ewe jest gun see Nile? Purr apse ewe shooed sea a quack? F dis R wot newt each at Allpottery - now under dare knot two haught at pottery. lull! >uu< -
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Sham pain sure beets real pane!
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Hi John,
Aye sea yew cot the spirit of the thing!
Twelve more to add to the collection!
Up to 85 words now!
It was such fun, and then a malfunction. Drat!
Thank you!
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Again ten commas wide
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I did not want to delete but now I have two stupid wheels rotating.
Gone.
Obviously See-Nile.
Pasted from before it hog-tied me.
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, Hi John, that was SO funny!
You were supposed to (mind-reader that you are) spell them right!
Here is the last line: "are herd, butt knot scene."
Using the homophones it is "heard but not seen."
Now I must go back and decipher the version you sent me!
Terry
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one-comma wide reply HAHAHA
, (I thought this problem had been cleared.)
, Hi John, that was SO funny!
You were supposed to (mind-reader that you are) spell them right!
Here is the last line: "are herd, butt knot scene."
Using the homophones it is "heard but not seen."
Now I must go back and decipher the version you sent me!
Terry
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